Subject RE: Security issues?
Author
---In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, <mark@...> wrote:

> Besides the documented limitation that passwords are 8 characters
> (Firebird 3 will lift that limitation), the connection protocol is not
>
encrypted meaning that people can sniff the traffic and determine the
>
password.

  Password is never passed over the wire in open form. It is encrypted by client...

Regards,
Vlad