From: Chris Green <cmg@dok.org>
Subject: Re: netrc.el now supports encoded files
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:47:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ptdviznf.fsf@catbert.dok.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluad50bqxj.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:25:28 +0100")
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> Perhaps several levels are useful. But none of this is enabled by
> default, is it? I mean, users have to request encryption of .authinfo
> for it to happen, right?
>
> But I'm not sure I see the advantage of b64 over plain-text.
If it's only obfuscation, base64 does the trick and its good enough in
mozilla that I can edit a domain name and be pretty confident that
someone over my shoulder isn't doing the transform in their head.
It's not secure but IMO it's better than rot13 ( which is what I was
replying to ).
My vote for what I would want for gnus is gpg. The base64 is perhaps
an easy obfuscation if there is no gpg binary available or people
don't want to bother with passphrases.
--
Chris Green <cmg@dok.org>
You now have 14 minutes to reach minimum safe distance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-07 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-05 23:22 Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-05 23:34 ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-06 1:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-06 0:13 ` Steven E. Harris
2004-01-06 1:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-06 21:57 ` Chris Green
2004-01-06 23:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-06 23:25 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-06 23:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-07 0:09 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-07 2:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-01-08 22:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-27 19:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-07 14:47 ` Chris Green [this message]
2004-01-08 20:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-06 13:28 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-06 19:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-06 20:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-06 20:59 ` Steven E. Harris
2004-01-06 22:00 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-06 22:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-06 22:56 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-06 23:13 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-06 23:35 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-06 20:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-06 23:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-06 23:19 ` Richard Hoskins
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