diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 427ea70701..d451f465dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -775,11 +775,10 @@ for full details.
 	See `GIT_TRACE2` for available trace output options and
 	link:technical/api-trace2.html[Trace2 documentation] for full details.
 
-`GIT_REDACT_COOKIES`::
-	This can be set to a comma-separated list of strings. When a curl trace
-	is enabled (see `GIT_TRACE_CURL` above), whenever a "Cookies:" header
-	sent by the client is dumped, values of cookies whose key is in that
-	list (case-sensitive) are redacted.
+`GIT_TRACE_REDACT`::
+	By default, when tracing is activated, Git redacts the values of
+	cookies, the "Authorization:" header, and the "Proxy-Authorization:"
+	header. Set this variable to `0` to prevent this redaction.
 
 `GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS`::
 	Setting this variable to `1` will cause Git to treat all
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 4882c9f5b2..0eb1931a15 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 static struct trace_key trace_curl = TRACE_KEY_INIT(CURL);
 static int trace_curl_data = 1;
-static struct string_list cookies_to_redact = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
+static int trace_curl_redact = 1;
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x070a08
 long int git_curl_ipresolve = CURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER;
 #else
@@ -642,8 +642,9 @@ static void redact_sensitive_header(struct strbuf *header)
 {
 	const char *sensitive_header;
 
-	if (skip_prefix(header->buf, "Authorization:", &sensitive_header) ||
-	    skip_prefix(header->buf, "Proxy-Authorization:", &sensitive_header)) {
+	if (trace_curl_redact &&
+	    (skip_prefix(header->buf, "Authorization:", &sensitive_header) ||
+	     skip_prefix(header->buf, "Proxy-Authorization:", &sensitive_header))) {
 		/* The first token is the type, which is OK to log */
 		while (isspace(*sensitive_header))
 			sensitive_header++;
@@ -652,20 +653,15 @@ static void redact_sensitive_header(struct strbuf *header)
 		/* Everything else is opaque and possibly sensitive */
 		strbuf_setlen(header,  sensitive_header - header->buf);
 		strbuf_addstr(header, " <redacted>");
-	} else if (cookies_to_redact.nr &&
+	} else if (trace_curl_redact &&
 		   skip_prefix(header->buf, "Cookie:", &sensitive_header)) {
 		struct strbuf redacted_header = STRBUF_INIT;
-		char *cookie;
+		const char *cookie;
 
 		while (isspace(*sensitive_header))
 			sensitive_header++;
 
-		/*
-		 * The contents of header starting from sensitive_header will
-		 * subsequently be overridden, so it is fine to mutate this
-		 * string (hence the assignment to "char *").
-		 */
-		cookie = (char *) sensitive_header;
+		cookie = sensitive_header;
 
 		while (cookie) {
 			char *equals;
@@ -678,14 +674,8 @@ static void redact_sensitive_header(struct strbuf *header)
 				strbuf_addstr(&redacted_header, cookie);
 				continue;
 			}
-			*equals = 0; /* temporarily set to NUL for lookup */
-			if (string_list_lookup(&cookies_to_redact, cookie)) {
-				strbuf_addstr(&redacted_header, cookie);
-				strbuf_addstr(&redacted_header, "=<redacted>");
-			} else {
-				*equals = '=';
-				strbuf_addstr(&redacted_header, cookie);
-			}
+			strbuf_add(&redacted_header, cookie, equals - cookie);
+			strbuf_addstr(&redacted_header, "=<redacted>");
 			if (semicolon) {
 				/*
 				 * There are more cookies. (Or, for some
@@ -1003,11 +993,8 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
 	setup_curl_trace(result);
 	if (getenv("GIT_TRACE_CURL_NO_DATA"))
 		trace_curl_data = 0;
-	if (getenv("GIT_REDACT_COOKIES")) {
-		string_list_split(&cookies_to_redact,
-				  getenv("GIT_REDACT_COOKIES"), ',', -1);
-		string_list_sort(&cookies_to_redact);
-	}
+	if (!git_env_bool("GIT_TRACE_REDACT", 1))
+		trace_curl_redact = 0;
 
 	curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
 		user_agent ? user_agent : git_user_agent());
diff --git a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
index be01cf7bb2..e40e9ed52f 100755
--- a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
+++ b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
@@ -209,6 +209,16 @@ test_expect_success 'GIT_CURL_VERBOSE redacts auth details' '
 	grep "Authorization: Basic <redacted>" trace
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'GIT_TRACE_CURL does not redact auth details if GIT_TRACE_REDACT=0' '
+	rm -rf redact-auth trace &&
+	set_askpass user@host pass@host &&
+	GIT_TRACE_REDACT=0 GIT_TRACE_CURL="$(pwd)/trace" \
+		git clone --bare "$HTTPD_URL/auth/smart/repo.git" redact-auth &&
+	expect_askpass both user@host &&
+
+	grep "Authorization: Basic [0-9a-zA-Z+/]" trace
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'disable dumb http on server' '
 	git --git-dir="$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/repo.git" \
 		config http.getanyfile false
@@ -454,37 +464,37 @@ test_expect_success 'fetch by SHA-1 without tag following' '
 		--no-tags origin $(cat bar_hash)
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'GIT_REDACT_COOKIES redacts cookies' '
+test_expect_success 'cookies are redacted by default' '
 	rm -rf clone &&
 	echo "Set-Cookie: Foo=1" >cookies &&
 	echo "Set-Cookie: Bar=2" >>cookies &&
-	GIT_TRACE_CURL=true GIT_REDACT_COOKIES=Bar,Baz \
+	GIT_TRACE_CURL=true \
 		git -c "http.cookieFile=$(pwd)/cookies" clone \
 		$HTTPD_URL/smart/repo.git clone 2>err &&
-	grep "Cookie:.*Foo=1" err &&
+	grep "Cookie:.*Foo=<redacted>" err &&
 	grep "Cookie:.*Bar=<redacted>" err &&
+	! grep "Cookie:.*Foo=1" err &&
 	! grep "Cookie:.*Bar=2" err
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'GIT_REDACT_COOKIES redacts cookies when GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1' '
+test_expect_success 'empty values of cookies are also redacted' '
 	rm -rf clone &&
-	echo "Set-Cookie: Foo=1" >cookies &&
-	echo "Set-Cookie: Bar=2" >>cookies &&
-	GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 GIT_REDACT_COOKIES=Bar,Baz \
+	echo "Set-Cookie: Foo=" >cookies &&
+	GIT_TRACE_CURL=true \
 		git -c "http.cookieFile=$(pwd)/cookies" clone \
 		$HTTPD_URL/smart/repo.git clone 2>err &&
-	grep "Cookie:.*Foo=1" err &&
-	grep "Cookie:.*Bar=<redacted>" err &&
-	! grep "Cookie:.*Bar=2" err
+	grep "Cookie:.*Foo=<redacted>" err
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'GIT_REDACT_COOKIES handles empty values' '
+test_expect_success 'GIT_TRACE_REDACT=0 disables cookie redaction' '
 	rm -rf clone &&
-	echo "Set-Cookie: Foo=" >cookies &&
-	GIT_TRACE_CURL=true GIT_REDACT_COOKIES=Foo \
+	echo "Set-Cookie: Foo=1" >cookies &&
+	echo "Set-Cookie: Bar=2" >>cookies &&
+	GIT_TRACE_REDACT=0 GIT_TRACE_CURL=true \
 		git -c "http.cookieFile=$(pwd)/cookies" clone \
 		$HTTPD_URL/smart/repo.git clone 2>err &&
-	grep "Cookie:.*Foo=<redacted>" err
+	grep "Cookie:.*Foo=1" err &&
+	grep "Cookie:.*Bar=2" err
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'GIT_TRACE_CURL_NO_DATA prevents data from being traced' '
