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By: Encrypt your mutt email passwords « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix

Encrypt your mutt email passwords « 0ddn1x: tricks with *nix — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:35:39 +0000

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By: Tom Dickson-Hunt

Tom Dickson-Hunt — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:48:50 +0000

Very nice. I like this a lot.

A note: if you’ve got a recent Emacs, then you don’t have to bother with saving, shredding, etc.; simply find the new file passwords.gpg, type in its contents, and save, and Emacs will automatically encrypt it without ever writing plaintext to disk.

By: Aaron Toponce : Encrypt Your Irssi Config

Aaron Toponce : Encrypt Your Irssi Config — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:30:05 +0000

[...] Irssi as my client of choice, AND the fact that others have asked me about it after blogging about encrypting your IMAP/SMTP passwords with Mutt, I figured this was an appropriate [...]

By: vontrapp

vontrapp — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:33:48 +0000

There’s a very handy vim plugin that does gpg very nicely, taking care to not store anything to disk and other precautions so you don’t have to rely on shred. Additionally shred doesn’t really work as intended with journaled filesystems, iirc.

I use the one by markus braun
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=661
There’s another which I know nothing of by james mccoy

Once you have the plugin plopped into the ~/.vim/plugins directory, simply edit the .gpg file:
vim ~/.mutt/private.gpg

Enter your gpg uid (recipient address) in the top buffer and close it. Then edit the bottom buffer. vim will encrypt with gpg any time it writes to disk, and it turns off viminfo and swapfiles, too, so you don’t leak anything.

By: Benjamin Kerensa

Benjamin Kerensa — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:14:58 +0000

I wonder if Thunderbird stores passwords in plaintext =o now I’m concerned

By: sam

sam — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:33:19 +0000

muttrc also supports back-ticks. I have a small shell script that turns off local echo asks for my password, turns on local echo and then echos it as it exits.

set smtp_pass=`/home/sam/bin/muttpasswd`

#!/bin/bash

read -s -pPassword: P
echo $P

Hope this helps.