RE: encrypt the password stored in a file

If it's just a demo, do a quick and dirty encryption yourself, for
example
- xor the password before storing it and xor it again before
using it.

my $string = "password";
my $encrypted_string = ~$string;

<DO WHAT EVER YOU WANT NOW>


-----Original Message-----
From: JupiterHost.Net [mailto:mlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 08:38
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Subject: Re: encrypt the password stored in a file



Ken Perl wrote:
> 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.

Why didn't you say so?

my $password =
'in_the_real_world_your_password_would_go_here_protected_from_prying_ey
es_by_decent_permissions_since_obscuring_it_is_as_secure_as_covering_yo
ur_head_with_your_arms_in_an_atomic_blast';

Done!

In other words, don't use a real password in the part they see...

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