Michael Mann
changed
bug 11853
Comment # 4
on bug 11853
from Michael Mann
(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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