Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11853] smtp over port 587 shows identical content for fiel
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Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 18:36:38 +0000

Comment # 8 on bug 11853 from 
(In reply to Michael Mann from comment #4)
> (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.

undecoded base64 ? a extra step with effects on performance?!

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