element-hq / element-hq/element-android
Use char[] to handle passwords instead of String
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As explain [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8881291/why-is-char-preferred-over-string-for-passwords), it's more secure to avoid using String to carry password because we cannot remove them from memory on demand. So we should use CharArray.
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