Subversion 1.6 security improvements illustrated - Linux For You - May 2009

This was my second article for Linux For You which got published in the May 2009 issue. I am happy that I wrote this article because, the security improvements include the GNOME Keyring support introduced to Subversion whose code am closely associated with. This is also a continuation to the article published in April 2009 issue.

A gist from the article is follows, you can download the entire article from the attachment to this post,

Subversion 1.6.0 was released on 20th March, 2009 and included a lot of
security improvements, which we explore in detail in this article.

Last month, while discussing some of the new and significant features available in Subversion 1.6, we covered a little bit about the security features. This month we’ll concentrate exclusively on security improvements.

1. Warning when passwords are cached in plain text
2. Caching SSL client certificate passphrases
3. Encrypted password/passphrase caching

See attachment below to download the complete article in pdf.