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Re: [Nmh-workers] decode base64 auth info in -snoop output?

2016-08-12 11:35:24
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 09:32:14 -0400, David Levine said:

But I'd rather see this:

    (tls-decrypted) <= 334 Username:
    (tls-encrypted) => user(_at_)example(_dot_)com
    (tls-decrypted) <= 334 Password:
    (tls-encrypted) => my_password

The knee-jerk response is that it's a security issue.  A few second's
thought shows that it's not revealing anything that the person/software
issuing a 'post -snoop' doesn't already have access to.

Probably not a bad idea, as it drastically reduces the time to debug
a Homer Simpson "D'Oh!" moment when you finally realize it's sending
an incorrect user/password pair (been there, done that, when we migrated
our mailstore from a local solution to Google Mail... :)

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