ICloud changed my email password

I recently needed to confirm my icloud email account password.  (I have no troubles in Mail)
When I looked in Keychain and did Show Password, it showed that my password was a very long string of bizarre characters.
I never set this up. 
Does iCloud sometimes change an email account's password for some reason?
Can I just change it in Mail for that account to what it was before the icloud email migration, or do I need to change it somewhere else, too?
My login password to icloud dot com is completely different, and that works fine and is what it always was.
Thanks for any help.
Mac
iMac  10.8.3  Server

I need to be sure of what the password is.  Because I need to use it elsewhere.
That is the problem.
It became clear that the password that "Shows" in keychain for my email account is encrypted.
Apple support has no clue why it is encrypted.  Passwords "Shown" in keychain are supposed to be legible (unencrypted).
If I delete that odd entry  in keychain and restart , it comes right back, unchanged.
Mac

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