On 3/18/07, Vivia Nikolaidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not saying that it's a bad idea, but I can think of a few problems > that we need to take into account > > 1) You change your network card / hard disk / whatever and 3 programs > break - 2 due to licensing stupidities and amsn due to password > decryption...
AMSN doesn't break. Just enter your password again, and run until your next network card / hard disk / whatever change. > 2) John Doe takes his .amsn from his laptop, copies it to his desktop > (for synchronisation) just as he used to do for X years now, and > suddenly he needs to reenter the password each time he does this... Well, maybe an advanced option to enable/disable password encryption? I think the current system is just a joke. If you want to get the password, you will. If you don't want to, you won't bother. We could as well just hex encode it or use base64 instead of DES. > On 3/18/07, Álvaro J. Iradier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could we get a unique ID from the computer, and encrypt the password > > using that ID? That way, if you send that config file to another user, > > it can't be decrypted. Maybe we could use disk label / uuid, or > > network card mac address or something like that. > > > > If you change the computer id, the password won't decrypt, and it will > > just be forgotten. > > > > What do you think? I would code it, I just don't know what would be the > > best ID. > > > > > > > I know it's not always true in *THAT* case, but with amsn it's not.. it's > > > can't be an md5 hash (which is a one > > > way encryption) simply because we need to send the password to the msn > > > servers, so we need to be able to decrypt > > > it, so it's a two way encryption with a key, so knowing the code, you > > > should know how to decrypt it from > > > config.xml files... I did it many times already for stupid n00b users in > > > the forum who forgot their passwords :@ > > > anyways! > > > > > > KKRT > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > > > your > > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Amsn-devel mailing list > > > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > > > > > > > > > -- > > (:===========================================:) > > Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Amsn-devel mailing list > > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > > > > > -- > "Where is the life that we have lost in living? > Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? > Where is the knowledge that we have lost in information?" > > OEO; > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > -- (:===========================================:) Alvaro J. Iradier Muro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
