full-disclosure - Re: Security issue in Filezilla 3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)

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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:21:21 -0700
From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Security issue in Filezilla
	3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)

On 21 Apr 08, at 12:43, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:04:19 EDT, Joey Mengele said:
>> Exactly, I was talking about the RFC that supersedes that
>> particular RFC.
>
> 0959 File Transfer Protocol. J. Postel, J. Reynolds. October 1985.
>     (Format: TXT=147316 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0765) (Updated by  
> RFC2228,
>     RFC2640, RFC2773, RFC3659) (Also STD0009) (Status: STANDARD)

There is a 3.4.3 in RFC 959 which discusses a "COMPRESSED MODE", which  
might look superficially like encryption to the untrained eye.  
However, it appears that most modern FTP clients (and many FTP  
servers, in fact) don't support it. Also, it's not encrypted.

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