From: Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: New imap Implementation and Keepalive
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 14:08:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7ks7r$35g$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i7krmq$189$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:
> On 9/24/2010 2:00 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
>
>>
>>> If the problem is really that the password cache is expiring, it is
>>> far better to block that instead of trying to tax the mail server.
>>
>> Security?
>
> My memory is that auth-source.el caches passwords securely.
>
> If your password cache is vulnerable, then your open IMAP session is
> equally vulnerable. So, I don't see any any particular security
> advantage to expiring the password cache while keeping the sessions
> alive.
>
> Cheers,
> Uday
Could the reason be that many people use the same password for multiple
services?
Rupert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-25 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 2:42 Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-23 16:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-23 19:29 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-23 19:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-23 20:23 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-23 20:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-24 1:01 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-24 12:34 ` Frank Schmitt
2010-09-24 16:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 5:21 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 6:14 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 13:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 14:07 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 14:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 16:01 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 16:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-25 17:23 ` Dave Goldberg
2010-09-25 18:08 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 18:22 ` David Engster
2010-09-25 17:53 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 17:35 ` CHENG Gao
2010-09-25 19:01 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 22:08 ` Greg Troxel
2010-09-26 1:59 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 12:52 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-24 13:00 ` Charles Philip Chan
2010-09-25 12:59 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-25 13:08 ` Rupert Swarbrick [this message]
2010-09-25 15:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-25 23:03 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-25 15:48 ` Austin F. Frank
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