Unencrypted password storage

[Tomasz Wasilczyk]

This topic has been discussed broadly, see the explanation at [1]. How'd
you want to protect the password by *adding* MD5 to it?

Anyway, libpurple3 supports keyrings already.

Cheers,
Tom

[1] https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords

2015-11-10 12:27 GMT+00:00 Gates, John <jgates at lphs.org>:

> You are storing passwords for AIM accounts etc in xml in plain text.  This
> is a security concern for sure.  Do you have any plans to add at least an
> MD5 hash to this data?
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