Re: encrypt the password stored in a file
- From: msantinho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Miguel Santinho)
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:29:52 +0100
Em (On) Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:36:32PM -0400, Bob Showalter escreveu (wrote):
> Ken Perl wrote:
> > The password used to access a ftp server is stored in a text file, the
> > perl program gets the password from the file, the pass it to the ftp
> > server for logon, this is the background.
> > The requirement is encrypt the password store in a more secure way,
> > and the perl program could still use the encrypted password to logon
> > the server. what algorithm should be used in this task?
If someone can access your machine to get the password... then your problem
is not the way you encrypt that file, but the way you protect your machine.
;-)
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