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Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of PlainTextPasswords

-                      v19
+                      v20
 Then don't save your passwords in Pidgin or Finch.  As noted above, not saving the password is the default behavior.  This is another instance of "if someone else can access your files and you can't trust them not to misuse stored sensitive data, don't store the sensitive data."  Besides, you have to log in to your operating system anyway; it's not really going to kill you to have to type the same password one more time.
-== "Is that the final word?" ==
-No. The Pidgin developers are generally open to, and would encourage integration with keyrings (KeyringSupport). A keyring is an implementation of the first bullet point above. It would be used to cryptographically secure your password in a way that would generally be more secure (although not perfect). It would require a master password, shared amongst all the applications on your computer, to get at your passwords.
-The problem is that Pidgin runs on so many different environments, each of which has their own system for keyrings. It's difficult (but not impossible) to make Pidgin integrate with all of these, and still allow you to use one set of configuration files for each of them.
-If someone were to do this in a way that worked well, securely, and seamlessly to the user, without interfering with people who prefer to trust their file system's security, we'd gladly accept it.
 == DIGEST-MD5 in Jabber/XMPP ==