storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:30:04PM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> I use thunderbird on my laptop and desktop with an IMAP server, and
> I've been mailing myself encrypted mails with website passwords so I
> have access to them on both computers.
> 
> This is just as secure as encrypting a file and copying it onto both
> computers without using e-mail as a medium, right?

Yes.  If the data is securely encrypted, mail is just as good as any
other over-the-network method for moving the file from machine to
machine.

David