[HTTPCLIENT-1106] Use character arrays for passwords in Credentials objects, not Strings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 5.0 Alpha1
• Component/s: HttpClient (classic)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: John Karp
• Created: 28/Jun/11 22:13
• Updated: 04/May/17 09:48
• Resolved: 10/Aug/15 19:48

Description

Its fairly conventional to use char[] to represent passwords in Java, because using Strings can present security issues:

http://securesoftware.blogspot.com/2009/01/java-security-why-not-to-use-string.html
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/jce/JCERefGuide.html#PBEEx