On Jan 8, 1:55 am, "Sebastian Bassi" <sba...@clubdelarazon.org> wrote:
> In general you don't store the password, but a "hash" of it. Then when > the user logs-in, you hash it and compare the result with the stored > hash. > About hash, use sha, look > here:http://docs.python.org/library/hashlib.html#module-hashlib But the thing is that I will ask the user for user name and password only once i.e. when they start the application for the first time. After that, I'm not supposed to ask the user name and password again. So in this scenario, if I store a hash on the disk I cannot retrieve plain-text string back from my hash as I've to send user name and password to the server in plain-text. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
