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Text in the Connect to Database Dialog Box help screen reads: "Storing a password represents a potential security risk. Connection passwords are stored in an xml file in the config/Databases/Connections directory in the IDE user dir. Passwords are scrambled but they are not encrypted." I'm not sure why the passwords are scrambled when encrypting the password with a simple API like JASYPT (http://www.jasypt.org/) can be done. Actually, I did look at the saved 'scambled' password and it looks encrypted to me. Was the code updated and not the documentation?
Also tracked as issue 178169
Closing as in netbeans 7.2 the mentioned paragraph is not present anymore.