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?
Any Crypt:: modules would help but then the way to unencrypt it is still
in a file. You be better off doing:
my $password = 'plaintext';
chown user:user config.pm
chmod 600 config.pm
that way only the user can read it so it can safely be in plain text.
Obscuring it is a lame way to do it because any moron with half sense
can figure out how you unobscure it if they have access to the file anyway.
Permissions, permission, permissions :)
HTH :)
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