And The Solution to Encryped passwords in filezilla is ....

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And The Solution to Encryped passwords in filezilla is ....

#1 Post by Arkhee » 2015-03-12 16:45

Isolated Storage

why not storing password file in isolated storage ?
MS provides APIs for this

Isolated storage allows an application to store data in a way that only and only this same application can access it back again later

Stored information in the isolated storage could be either the full file or just a random password generated during filezilla install, thus allowing to manually ask for an unencrypted xml file in case you need it

This would prevent :
* spyware stealing unencrypted sites list along with passwords
* spyware watching keystrokes would be helpless, which solves the main argument of the filezilla team against encrypting passwords

In other words, using isolated access, no one nor no other application could access filezilla passwords, which is what numerous users have been asking for years (may I say decades ?)

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Re: And The Solution to Encryped passwords in filezilla is ....

#2 Post by gregnk » 2015-03-12 18:32

This was already suggested. Check http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/5530 for more info.

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Re: And The Solution to Encryped passwords in filezilla is ....

#3 Post by Arkhee » 2015-03-24 21:41

The solution I propose is slightly different.
However the reasons for which the issue described in your link has been refused are irrelevant, the developper decided to not understand the arguments explained

This bug is 5 years old, the whole filezilla community has been begging for this for years.

Windows now provides with several ways to protect filezilla's passwords quite safely, there is no reason not to do it

Filezilla team is definitelly not listening to their users

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Re: And The Solution to Encryped passwords in filezilla is ....

#4 Post by botg » 2015-03-24 22:17

Isolated Storage is a .NET technology. Can't be used in FileZilla which is written in C++.

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