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Re: ZipTorrent 1.3.7.3 Discloses Proxy Passwords to Local Users

Nick Boyce wrote:

Surely this is just another rehash of the same old debate that appears
here every now and then - the conclusion will always be that stored
passwords are inherently vulnerable.   They can be obfuscated as much
as you like, but it only needs one successful piece of R&D to render
the whole obfuscation scheme useless for everybody.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=92420089800002&r=1&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=94570694700003&r=1&w=2 for a couple of useful Bugtraq debates on this topic. [both in 1999 ... was that _really_ the last time this came up ?]
Good grief. Are DOS and Win9x concepts really so burned into people's brains that they can't recognize the proper solution for storing data where other users on a system can't get to it?
These aren't the days of single-user desktop operating systems anymore, people. You don't need inherently insecure obfuscation techniques to hide data, you just have to store it where it friggin' belongs -- IN THE USER'S HOME DIRECTORY.