El día Saturday, August 24, 2013 a las 03:53:21PM -0400, Ethan Blanton escribió:
> 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. Not sure about this; $ echo password | openssl enc -base64 cGFzc3dvcmQK While one can easy see with a short eye shoot and remember the token 'password', it is not so easy pickup from the screen the token 'cGFzc3dvcmQK'. matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: g...@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support