[#1000594] Accept SecureString as connection string input

Date:
2006-03-20 11:20

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Summary:
Accept SecureString as connection string input

Detailed description
Standard .net strings are very insecure - they appear several times in memory, are in plain text and cannot be overwitten as they are immutable. Using the SecureString class would help alleviate these problems.

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Date: 2010-02-03 14:55 Sender: Alaric Dailey I was going to write more, but isn't this exactly why you would use Integrated Security? As someone who writes Database code to be independent of providers, why would anyone want to special case this behavior.

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