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hatted picture hatted · Apr 22, 2015 · Viewed 55.8k times · Source

I have many FTP site and stored it in Site Manager. when I need to retrieve password to my colleague, I can export it and get back the username and password. but now I found the password is encrypted. Can I get back the plain text password from the exported xml? I am using Filezilla 10.10

            <User>abc.com</User>
            <Pass encoding="base64">ZW1lcjAyMDI</Pass>

Answer

Gijsbert Brouwer picture Gijsbert Brouwer · Apr 22, 2015

I think this is the tool you are looking for: https://www.base64decode.org/ Just fill in your base64 encoded password and it will decode it for you.

The password seems just to be base64 encoded (not instant readable, but it still is the password). In older fileZilla versions, the password wasn't even encoded, and the passwords were there in plain text, this is a (small) improvement.

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