Re: [Gaim-devel] master password - encryption patch

[Ka-Hing C. <ga...@hx...>]

On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:42 +0100, Chris Moore wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> I recently started running gaim as a 'portable application' from my
> USB thumb drive,and wasn't happy with it saving my account passwords
> in plain text on the drive.  I wouldn't want to risk having them
> stolen if I lost the drive, so I wrote some code to optionally encrypt
> the passwords using a master password, like Firefox does.

Cool, some of my co-workers may like it.

> There are some screenshots showing how it looks, and Windows installer
> binaries here:

Is there a reason that you have a preference tab just for 2 buttons? I
think a menu item under Accounts or maybe Tools is better.

-khc