full-disclosure - Re: Security issue in Filezilla3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)

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Message-ID: <0F5833F76B26446E8F51C3BFB425AB7C@Komputer01>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:10:30 -0400
From: "Garrett M. Groff" <groffg@...design.com>
To: "Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele@...hmail.com>,
	<Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Security issue in
	Filezilla3.0.9.2:passwordsare stored in plain text (sitemanager.xml)

Joey, Wikipedia has some decent write-ups on both compression and 
encryption. Understanding those concepts would be helpful before tackling 
RFCs. Hope that helps.

- G

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:31:53 EDT, Joey Mengele said:

> So are you trying to suggest compression is not as secure as
> encryption? Have you even *read* the RFC in question?

The design goal of most compression algorithms is that *anybody* can take
the compressed data and get back the original.  The design goal of most
encryption is that *only the intended recipient* can decrypt and get the
original data back.

The only question left at this point is whether the contents of your brain 
were
compressed, or merely encrypted, and which of the two would be more secure.

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