Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of PlainTextPasswords

Timestamp:

May 5, 2013, 2:47:53 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Mechanical snail

Comment:

Link to new keyring wiki page, and move some details there

PlainTextPasswords

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 == "Is that the final word?" ==
 
-No. The Pidgin developers are generally open to, and would encourage integration with keyrings. A keyring is an implementation of the first bullet point above. It would be used to cryptographically secure your password in a way that would generally be more secure (although not perfect). It would require a master password, shared amongst all the applications on your computer, to get at your passwords.
+No. The Pidgin developers are generally open to, and would encourage integration with keyrings (KeyringSupport). A keyring is an implementation of the first bullet point above. It would be used to cryptographically secure your password in a way that would generally be more secure (although not perfect). It would require a master password, shared amongst all the applications on your computer, to get at your passwords.
 
 The problem is that Pidgin runs on so many different environments, each of which has their own system for keyrings. It's difficult (but not impossible) to make Pidgin integrate with all of these, and still allow you to use one set of configuration files for each of them.
 
 If someone were to do this in a way that worked well, securely, and seamlessly to the user, without interfering with people who prefer to trust their file system's security, we'd gladly accept it.
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-== Desktop keyring ==
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-There was a Google Summer of Code [http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/GSoC2008/MasterPassword project] that made progress in this direction, but the code was not merged into the main developer branch (im.pidgin.pidgin).
 
 == DIGEST-MD5 in Jabber/XMPP ==