From this point of view, not only masked-text, but also *clear-text* in credential-store-reference-type seems redundant.

Support for masked passwords in client XML config ------------------------------------------------- Key: ELY-816 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ELY-816 Project: WildFly Elytron Issue Type: Task Reporter: David Lloyd Assignee: Jan Kalina Priority: Critical Fix For: 1.3.2.CR1 We need a way to support masked passwords in the auth configuration file, either as: * A dedicated masked-password-type XML type * Adding necessary fields to hashed-password-type * Adding a modular crypt format Needs to be supported anywhere passwords are allowed.