I've never much understood Pidgins perspective on this. Even base64 is obscure enough to keep a human from reading it over the shoulder.
The Unix argument seems to be pragmatic and naive in an Active Directory dominated industry. I for one agree with the OP, clear text is frightening to see, regardless of the technicalities around how secure it is. Love pidgin tho... :) -Tres On Aug 24, 2013 2:49 PM, "Kevin Stange" <ksta...@pidgin.im> wrote: > On 08/24/2013 11:13 AM, Fernando Jung wrote: > > is there any way to encrypt the "~/.purple/accounts.xml" files? in it is > > all my accounts setting saved as plain text, including my passwords, > > which is not very secure > > Please see: > > https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords > > In 3.0.0, which is under development, we will support keyring systems, > which will allow you to encrypt your passwords in the keyring rather > than store them within the pidgin configuration. > > Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > Support@pidgin.im mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >
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