Excerpts from Daniel Wagner's message of Fri Jan 25 21:03:33 -0800 2008: > > - at least a cursory effort to not store login credentials in > > plaintext .. how to store them whilst retaining simplicity and > > platform independence is an interesting question. Not sure how far sup > > (or anyone really) wants to go down that particular rabbit hole > > I don't like this idea. I think it was Gaim (now Pidgin) that first > opened my eyes to the possibility that plaintext passwords might not be > so bad. The Pidgin page seems to be down just now, so I can't say for > certain that this is the essay I originally read, but > http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords?format=txt > sounds like a promising result from Google.
Wait, now that I stopped to think about it, I may have to take this back. I don't actually know what credentials you mean, so the argument may not even apply. ~d _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
