[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (MNG-4626) Avoid cleartext passwords over http

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Brett Porter edited comment on MNG-4626 at 4/7/10 6:24 PM:
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can I sum up, between the two issues, that you want Maven to not decrypt the password in settings.xml, and that Artifactory is using the same algorithm and master key ? So a suitable escaping mechanism (that works as documented on the page) would be sufficient? That should be fine to do, but I otherwise agree using https for your repository is a better option all around.

      was (Author: brettporter):
    can I some up, between the two issues, that you want Maven to not decrypt the password in settings.xml, and that Artifactory is using the same algorithm and master key ? So a suitable escaping mechanism (that works as documented on the page) would be sufficient? That should be fine to do, but I otherwise agree using https for your repository is a better option all around.
  
> Avoid cleartext passwords over http
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-4626
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4626
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: General
>    Affects Versions: 3.0-alpha-7
>            Reporter: Brendan Lawlor
>
> The current encryption scheme implemented by Maven avoids the use of cleartext passwords on local files by allowing them to be encrypted locally and decrypted just before the maven client requests from or deploys to a central artifact repository.
> I would like to suggest that the Maven team replicate the idea adopted by Artifactory, where passwords are _transmitted_ encrypted, and only decrypted on the server side by the repository. Requests and deployments are made over http and transmitted in the clear. Where the passwords are system passwords integrated to Active Directory or similar using LDAP, this is not an option even within a company's LAN. I like the idea of where Nexus and the Maven development stack in general is going (I listened to Jason's seminar recently and I'm keen on much of where you are going). But passwords in the clear over http is a showstopper and I'm surprised you haven't already borrowed this idea from the competition.
> Another irritating side effect of maven's insistence in using cleartext passwords has been mentioned by a colleague of mine in MNG-4611. We currently use Artifactory for EXACTLY this reason (the password encryption) and maven logs loudly about the fact that the passwords are encrypted.

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