[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Resolved: (JBAS-4460) Jboss Password Encryption Security Flaw

[Andrew Oliver (JIRA)]

     [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-4460?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andrew Oliver resolved JBAS-4460.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix


The "encrypt the database" password thing is there for passing silly security audits.  Ultimately there will be a password of some kind somewhere because the system needs to decrypt the password to send it to the database.  It will always be easy for a relatively experienced programmer to hack this.  Filesystem/OS security + transport security are your only hope here.  Suggest an alternative that actually does more than obscure or obfuscate but still works.  

> Jboss Password Encryption Security Flaw
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>                 Key: JBAS-4460
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-4460
>             Project: JBoss Application Server
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: Security
>    Affects Versions: JBossAS-4.0.3 SP1
>            Reporter: Scott Kesecki
>            Assignee: Scott M Stark
>
> The Jboss salt to encrypt and decrypt passwords are stored in clear text in the jboss source that can be downloaded by everyone. Anyone that has a basic understanding of how java works can take the source tree get the class definition that has the password encryption and turn it into a a password decryption class.

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