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I was honestly surprised to see all this gpg setup, yet no mention of application-specific passwords. I've been using email clients with what google now calls a

• fishywang 10y ago
  "application-specific passwords" are not actually restricted to a single application. You can restrict the scope (only has access to your emails, for example), but any application could use this password to access your emails.
  • bartbes 10y ago
    Sure, but you can revoke them without changing your password or revoking other app passwords, making it much easier to recover if they do leak.