From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: daniel@wagner-home.com (Daniel Wagner)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:12:28 -0800
Subject: [sup-talk] 0.5 thoughts
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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