There is nothing to discuss: as BIRD needs access to the plain-text password, best way is to store it in plain-text. If BIRD would encrypt passwords, in any case it will store key in local filesystem, or it will be hardcoded in its sources. Cisco, for example, stores that passwords in so-called "type 7" passphrases. Go to Google, type "cisco type 7 password decrypt" and volia - you can easily get password from cisco's running-config: just type encrypted one into the form.
2015-04-25 20:04 GMT+03:00 Alex Bligh <a...@alex.org.uk>: > > On 25 Apr 2015, at 17:25, Christopher Jay Manders <cjmand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > It is a security issue to have a password stored in clear-text. > > bird needs to obtain the password in plain text. > > If bird can decrypt the stored value, so can anything else with file > permissions > to read the file. > > -- > Alex Bligh > > > > > >
