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[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-6174) Cassandra keystore password is in plain text

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6174?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

J.P. Eiti Kimura updated CASSANDRA-6174:
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    Attachment: 2.1-CASSANDRA-6174.txt

It is not supposed to be any kind of encryption, I changed the code to read the password in Base64 encode. It is to prevent to let it in plain format.

> Cassandra keystore password is in plain text 
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6174
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6174
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Config
>            Reporter: Shahryar Sedghi
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: lhf
>         Attachments: 2.1-CASSANDRA-6174.txt
>
>
> It is an extremely bad security practice to keep any password, particularly  keystore password in plain text. it can be easily obfuscated.



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