-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-26 18:00, Anton Aylward wrote:
The protection that encrypting a drive or partition offers is useful if the laptop is stolen when powered down. If its stolen when powered up then the thief just has to make sure it never powers down!
He also needs to be able to login, or that there is an open sesion, unlocked. which reminds me that the screen saver was removed from kde (?) because it could be killed, and then gain access to the session.
This is the basis of a novel by John Sandford http://www.johnsandford.org/kidd04.html
Mmm :-)
A better approach is to have the password fields encrypted and code in the 'fetch' program (whatever it may be) that can handle that encryption. This may be a dedicated filed in a sqlite database or a record in a KDE wallet or Gnome keychain.
The problem is that the author of fetchmail made a decision not to have those fields encrypted and not to have the code to handle encrypted field in the body of the program.
Yes, it seems so.
I say "better" above because there are still modes where the password could be snooped. That's why you should use TLS. But that's another matter. Ridiculously, Eric Raymond thought it was OK to have the crypto code to handle TLS but not encrypted fields.
Mmmm... So I will have to hack a script. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlW1lZUACgkQja8UbcUWM1w7+gD8ClF/Ez2RuIfwhipZSfEpmFKQ /7z9DSj2p+P/QeTzN5QA/jm7iQL+KJ0H1FqiKSl5MlFPbm6npFbCSTJ4AG8fwzdZ =6BuM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org