I'm not saying that it's a bad idea, but I can think of a few problems that we need to take into account
1) You change your network card / hard disk / whatever and 3 programs break - 2 due to licensing stupidities and amsn due to password decryption... 2) John Doe takes his .amsn from his laptop, copies it to his desktop (for synchronisation) just as he used to do for X years now, and suddenly he needs to reenter the password each time he does this... On 3/18/07, Álvaro J. Iradier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could we get a unique ID from the computer, and encrypt the password > using that ID? That way, if you send that config file to another user, > it can't be decrypted. Maybe we could use disk label / uuid, or > network card mac address or something like that. > > If you change the computer id, the password won't decrypt, and it will > just be forgotten. > > What do you think? I would code it, I just don't know what would be the best > ID. > > > > I know it's not always true in *THAT* case, but with amsn it's not.. it's > > can't be an md5 hash (which is a one > > way encryption) simply because we need to send the password to the msn > > servers, so we need to be able to decrypt > > it, so it's a two way encryption with a key, so knowing the code, you > > should know how to decrypt it from > > config.xml files... I did it many times already for stupid n00b users in > > the forum who forgot their passwords :@ > > anyways! > > > > KKRT > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Amsn-devel mailing list > > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > > > > > -- > (:===========================================:) > Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > -- "Where is the life that we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge that we have lost in information?" OEO; ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
