Re: Security flaw in Full Disclosure mailing list

[George Chatzisofroniou <sophron () latthi com>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:30:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Ron <ron () skullsecurity net> wrote:
> > That doesn't change the fact that it's storing the passwords in
> > plaintext, though, it just hides the 'your passwords are completely
> > insecure' issue a little bit.
> Mailman 3 might be changing that behavior. See "Password handling in
> MM3", https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2010-July/021207.html.
>
> Unfortunately, it has not been released yet. See
> "https://launchpad.net/mailman";, https://launchpad.net/mailman.

Plain texts passwords and reminders have already gone away in MM3. Note
that MM3 has a Beta release with some sufficient functionality for
anyone willing to try it out [1].

[1]: http://pythonhosted.org/mailman/src/mailman/docs/START.html

-- 
George Chatzisofroniou

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