Thread: IM, Email Passwords Are Stored as Plain Text
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-01-18 , 13:05
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#54
Originally Posted by ruskie View Post
A salted md5 hash would probably more or less avoid many of the concerns.
Except the concern of actually working. The issue with these passwords is that the N900 has to actually submit them to the relevant servers. A non-reversible encryption process will break this.

As has been pointed out, with PR1.1 these passwords do not appear to be being saved to the accounts file (for new accounts), so this may already have been "solved".
 

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