But if Popper encrypted my POP3 E-Mail Account passwords
they could not be used!
Only if popper used a weak encryption that can be decrypted
by popper. But this would not be usefull, because everybody
could decrypt it.
The passwords for the popper-accounts could be encrypted
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hczedik is correct that POP passwords would have to be
reversibly encrypted, which would be open to attack by
anyone who knew the algorithm.
However, popper user-account passwords can and should be
one-way hashed. I'll look into it, but I'll have to do some
reading, since I know that attacks against MD5 and SHA-1
have recently been published.
Roy
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But if Popper encrypted my POP3 E-Mail Account passwords
they could not be used!
Only if popper used a weak encryption that can be decrypted
by popper. But this would not be usefull, because everybody
could decrypt it.
The passwords for the popper-accounts could be encrypted
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Absolutely right you are!
Popper is a really nice application but with passwords saved
as plain text (inside the database) it's rendered unusable
to me.
Security, in this case, indeed IS an issue!
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hczedik is correct that POP passwords would have to be
reversibly encrypted, which would be open to attack by
anyone who knew the algorithm.
However, popper user-account passwords can and should be
one-way hashed. I'll look into it, but I'll have to do some
reading, since I know that attacks against MD5 and SHA-1
have recently been published.
Roy