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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Kcmgrub2
From:       Anne Wilson <annew () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-03-29 10:59:11
Message-ID: 201103291159.12205.annew () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 29 March 2011 11:23:50 Alberto Mattea wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 March 2011 13:05:11 Alberto Mattea wrote:
> > > > > "Crypting password" means that it's generating a sha512 hash of the
> > > 
> > > password
> > > 
> > > > > with the pbkdf2 algorithm, so that you cannot simply read the
> > > > > configuration file
> > > > > and get the password.
> > > > 
> > > > Wouldn't that be "encrypt passwort"?
> > > 
> > > I don't know, maybe both are possible. We would need a native english
> > > speaker  here :-)
> > 
> > "Encrypting the password" would mean applying the encryption algorithm to
> 
> the
> 
> > password, thus making it unreadable in plain text.  To make it plainly
> > readable again would require decryption.  Does that help?  If not, please
> 
> give
> 
> > me the appropriate sentences and I'll see if I can help more.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> Thanks for the clarification, it's very helpful. Would it be the same if
> the password is un-decryptable, since we're using one-way hashes?
> Thanks
> Alberto

Pretty much the same, although the rules are unclear by the time you get to 
this complication :-)  I'd be inclined to say that they were non-decryptable, 
but I'm not sure that un-decryptable would be wrong.  Of course clarity of 
meaning is the overall requirement, and I think non- suggests you can't, 
whereas un- suggests, to me, some reversal method.  Just my thoughts, though.

Anne
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