Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

In fact, I are just writing a demo program used in a presentation,
when I open its config file through screen sharing, I don't want the
visiter see the plain text password.

On 8/30/05, Miguel Santinho <msantinho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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perl -e 'print unpack(u,"62V5N\"FME;G\!E<FQ`9VUA:6PN8V]M\"\@``
")'
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