Question

I’m writing an applet in python for gnome2 that checks for new emails in gmail.

Actually i’m saving the pass of gmail in a file .config using an encoding base-64. and then decoding the pass everytime i need it.

is this secure?? it’s a better way to store a password??

Thanks

Answer 1

No, it’s not secure. Instead, you should use the Gnome keyring service, or whatever the current system offers, to store passwords.

See the keyring package for a Python interface to such services:

import keyring

keyring.set_password('your_application_name', username, password)

keyring will store your password in the most secure keyring available, use get_password('your_application_name', username) to retrieve it again.