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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:38:33 -0400
From: "Garrett M. Groff" <groffg@...design.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Security issue in
	Filezilla3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)

Sounds like your mind is made up. Good luck in your search for scholarly 
wisdom in this matter.

- G


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele@...hmail.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>; <groffg@...design.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Security issue in 
Filezilla3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)


> Groffg,
>
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:02:34 -0400 "Garrett M. Groff"
> <groffg@...design.com> wrote:
>>Joey,
>>
>>The topic write-ups for data compression and cryptography (go to
>>that page
>>in lieu of "encryption") are reasonably good. You can then branch
>>to other
>>sources for the sake of verification via cross referencing. That
>>should help
>>to elucidate the substantial difference between encrypting data
>>and
>>compressing data.
>>
>
> Reasonably good? Says who? Chairman Mao?
>
>>As far as Wikipedia being a scholarly source, I'd say that
>>scholars will
>>choose many sources, Wikipedia among them. Someone [citation
>>needed!] once
>>commented about Wikipedia that it has 10 times the information as
>>an
>>encyclopedia volume but with a 10% reduction in accuracy. Indeed,
>>one would
>>be wise to cross reference any information gleaned from Wikipedia
>>that is to
>>be used for anything more substantial than satisfying mere
>>curiosity. But
>>using Wikipedia as an initial resource doesn't seem like a bad
>>idea to me.
>>
>
> To you? What is your credibility?
>
>>Coming back to the topic at hand, I hope that this will wrap up
>>your concern
>>over the perceived weakness in FileZilla (which, as it turns out,
>>is simply
>>an innate weakness of using FTP).
>>
>
>
> I disagree. The flaw that I have discovered still lies in the
> FileZilla implementation of FTP. Until a SCHOLARLY source can
> contradict my findings, I do not anticipate anyone on this list or
> elsewhere swaying me. Thanks for your time but it is back to the
> grill for me.
>
>>- G
>
> J
>
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