[Psi-devel] Password encoding

[Kevin Smith]

On 3 Aug 2006, at 10:08, Robin Redeker wrote:
> I don't know any reason why a password stored in the users  
> homedirectory should
> be encoded like this. It can't be for security reasons, because any  
> 'hacker' can
> decoded the password in the blink of an eye. Is it only to annoy  
> users and prevent
> them from reading/recovering their own passwords?

It's so that a user observing you editing your config file or such  
can't immediately identify your password, it's to prevent accidental  
rather than malicious damage.

/K

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Kevin Smith
Psi Jabber client developer/project leader (http://psi-im.org/)
Postgraduate Research Student, Computer Science, University Of Exeter