Probably because some older authentication mechanisms need the original password.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rek2 Sent: 11 April 2008 05:55 AM To: Jabber/XMPP software development list Subject: [jdev] Mysql authreg why not encrypted? Hi I am writing a front end for jabberd2 and I wonder why jabberd2 does not has the option to encrypt the password in the db? thanks. Chris Fernandez BinaryFreedom Jabber server -- A Spectre is haunting multinational capitalism--the spectre of free information. All the powers of ``globalism'' have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcize this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission. Eben Moglen from the FSF. http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html Solidarity: http://www.dailyradical.org http://www.diarioradical.org http://www.spboston.org http://www.binaryfreedom.info
