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Security through obscurity is no security at all, and the use of Base64 encoding to obscure a password will only slow an attacker down for seconds, at the most. Instead, passwords should be encrypted with private keys that are at least 128 bits in length.
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This rule checks for the use of Base64 decoding on values that are then used in database and LDAP connections.
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