Re: [Evolution] Security issues: saving Mailbox passwords on Evolution 1.4

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:51, Xiaoyong Wu wrote:
> Evolution saves the mailbox passwords in ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution.
> There's no encryption on the password. It is just a straight forward
> base64 encoding.

Of course. How else would you have it work? If it was encrypted, you
would need to type in a password in order for it to get your password,
which would be pointless.

(And encrypting it with a fixed password would not add any security over
base64 encoding, since anyone could just look in the evolution source to
see what the password was.)

-- Dan