Re: [Savant-discuss] paths

[Michael L. <la...@he...>]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Prince Qel Dar wrote:

> Thanks it is working great. Is there any to get around it that I might need
> to know?

This password protection is reasonably secure - the only major way to
subvert it is through someone watching network traffic and pulling the
password off of the wire.  (The passwords are passed across the network as
base64 encoded strings, which are trivial to convert back to plaintext.)

The reason the passwords aren't encrypted is long and complicated, but the
simple reason is that the vast majority of clients (including IE,
Netscape, and Opera) don't support it.

Michael

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