From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Plaintext authentication?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:52:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871w2g62tl.fsf@nokile.rath.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxqx2vvo.fsf@gmail.com>
Alejandro Benitez <benitezalejandrogm@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
> Gnus v5.13.
> Does the following mean that my password is transmitted plaintext?
>
> Reading active file from gmail via nnimap...
> Opening nnimap server on gmail...
> imap: Connecting to imap.gmail.com...
> imap: Opening SSL connection with `openssl s_client -quiet -ssl3 -connect %s:%p'...done
> Waiting for response from imap.gmail.com...done
> Parsing authinfo file `~/.authinfo'.
> imap: Authenticating to `imap.gmail.com' using `login'...
> imap: Plaintext authentication...
> imap: Authenticating to `imap.gmail.com' using `login'...done
You are using the LOGIN method, which sends the plain password over
the IMAP connection. However, your entire IMAP connection is SSL
encrypted, so you shouldn't worry. AFAIK, of course.
Best,
-Nikolaus
--
Nikolaus@rath.org | College Ring 6, 28759 Bremen, Germany
Class of 2008 - Physics | Jacobs University Bremen
»My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.«
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-29 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-28 19:38 Alejandro Benitez
2008-06-29 8:52 ` Nikolaus Rath [this message]
2008-07-01 20:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
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