[pkg-kolab] Passwords

[Tom Fernandes]

Hi,
Not sure. It is e.g. used to encode names when the contain characters like 
umlauts, accents, etc.

Don't know, why it is used to encode the password field though.


Tom


On Monday 22 May 2006 18:09, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:09, Tom Fernandes wrote:
>
> Just one more question:
> > if an attribute contains "::" it is base64 encoded - you will have to
> > decode the string to view the actual content.
> > if you decode
> >
> > e1NTSEF9eng5WTB0RDVCc2pEeVI2MHI4Z2hRdTBOS3JUZC9jT0I=
> >
> > you will get:
> >
> > {SSHA}zx9Y0tD5BsjDyR60r8ghQu0NKrTd/cOB
> >
> > this string.
>
> What is this encoding good for? Security through obscurity? Why not just
> use '{SSHA}zx9Y0tD5BsjDyR60r8ghQu0NKrTd/cOB'?
>
> Joh