As part of my open source IMAP mail filtering applet, Filtered, I wrote code to securely encrypt and store email user names and passwords in a MySQL database so that they can be decrypted as well. The technique is outlined below. Typically, passwords should be hashed in with a salt using one way encryption but Read More
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