Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11853] smtp over port 587 shows identical content for fiel
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Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:08:43 +0000

changed bug 11853


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CC   mmann78@netscape.net

Comment # 4 on bug 11853 from 
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #3)
> Is there some reason why undoing base-64 encoding is referred to as
> "decryption" in that preference's description?  It's not as if it's a real
> form of *encryption* as in "you can't read this unless you have the key or
> run some cracking software on it to decrypt it without a key".
> 
> And is there some reason why there even *is* a preference?  Is there some
> reason why we don't *always* decode it, even if we also put the undecoded
> blob into the protocol tree?

While I agree its not decryption in the general sense, it's still an "extra
step" that effects performance.  In that sense it took on the general rule of
decryption, which is a preference disabled by default.

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