> Recently I was quite shocked when I looked in my .gaimrc > file and found that it stored passwords in clear text. > > Then whilst reading the NWAM spec it mentioned that wifi > passwords are also stored in clear text.
I have sympathy with you. I suspect what you really want
is a tamperproof personal HW key store. $HOME isn't that.
Certainly you should restrict the access to owner only
(600) and use Kerberized Secure NFS for $HOME. Also consider
making $HOME an encrypted file system.
Gary..
