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RE: Password obscuring: msg#00373

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Subject:	RE: Password obscuring

> > I checked the 7.4 implementation with a packet sniffer this
> morning, and couldn't see the password. Could somebody from
> SAP confirm for me that you did implement password encryption
> in 7.4 (I couldn't find anything in the release notes)?

SAP DB uses and used very weak reversible password encryption. I don't know
which program you traced to see a plaintext password. This could have been the
database manager (where 'user_logon' transfers the password in plaintext) or
loadercli.

Daniel Dittmar

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