[Imapfilter-devel] Encrypted passwords

[Gabor Z. Papp]

* Lefteris Chatzibarbas <lefcha at users.sourceforge.net>:

|> Why don't you choose a method where no additional passphrase needed?
| 
| Another method, such as?

$ mkpasswd --help
Usage: mkpasswd [OPTIONS]... [PASSWORD [SALT]]
Crypts the PASSWORD using crypt(3).
[...]

No additional passphrase needed. Its well enough for what you want.
And crypt() I think is part of all modern unices.

| One good reason to encrypt your passwords is that the machine you are

It is simpley good, I also hate passwords in plain text
files. But encrypting it with additional passphrase is not
so comfortable. :-)

Decrypt doesn't need the passphrase?


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