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From: JupiterHost.Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 08:38
To: beginners@perl.org
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 it
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_p
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Em (On) Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:36:32PM -0400, Bob Showalter escrev
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
Maybe the protocol is SFTP and the transmission is secure...
*transmission* maybe not source code, which is the OP's issue...
By the way, isn't there a perl module that can crypt a string using a
password (which can be used to decrypt it back)?
Yes but then you have to store the cypher or
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 co
From: "Wiggins d'Anconia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Considering it is FTP who cares about permissions too. It is an insecure
> protocol to begin with, the password is sniffable during transmission
> anyways, really the words FTP and secure don't belong in a sentence
> together, unless they are included
JupiterHost.Net 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
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 st
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, 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,
>
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