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Perhaps a rather naive questions, but: were the username and pw transfered in plaintext?
by niekmaas 14y ago
Perhaps a rather naive questions, but: were the username and pw transfered in plaintext?
- EricR23 14y agoYep, I remember both being sent via plaintext.
- sirclueless 14y agoThink of the username and password as a tracking cookie, more than actual authentication.
- merlincorey 14y agoRFC 1459 Internet Relay Chat[1] clearly shows in its example that it uses plaintext passwords: Example: PASS secretpasswordhere It also explains how the server password can be set either globally or per client. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459#section-4.1.1 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459#section-4.1.1