Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom: > I've never much understood Pidgins perspective on this. Even base64 is > obscure enough to keep a human from reading it over the shoulder.
Unless your password is very, very bad, a base64 encoding of the password should be of roughly similar complexity. Therefore, anyone who can remember your password can remember the base64 -- and reverse it. > 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. Good. It should be frightening. That's the point. Ethan _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
