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Re: Cycle has entered sid



also sprach Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es> [2005.04.16.1610 +0200]:
> ~/.cycle/username can be easily retrieved just using a
> python's module and knowing the password. I wouldn't
> like such sensitive data to be stored in plain text in
> a file.

Why the heck is it password protected anyway? It's already in the
home directory, so ~/.cycle should be permission 700. And root can
get at the data with or without password (just wait until you enter
it, then get the data from memory).

I understand it's somewhat personal data, but not really much more
than your email and the like.

Symmetric password encryption must die!

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