Re: Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-19 Thread Sawsan Sarandah
If you want your usernames and passwords to look something like this. ªaRtW¢³†Ê¬Ì~“µv$¾ïà then store passwords in a mysql blob field with the encrypt() function and a "key". I learned this technique from a very excellent tutorial by Aaron Weiss at the following URL: www.wdvl.com/Authoring/

Re: Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-18 Thread Mark Bergeron
geron' -Original Message- From: "Grierson, Garry (UK07)"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue Sep 18 03:22:17 PDT 2001 Subject: Security Suggestions Please! >I have to secure a newly developed web search service that deals with >sensitive fiscal inform

RE: Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-18 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 04:37 PM 09/18/2001 +0200, Grierson, Garry (UK07) wrote: >The internal people that have been granted access to the servers running >this system probably wouldn't have the knowledge or inclination to attempt a >hack. Well, lets get our terminology straight first :) To "hack" is a good thing...

RE: Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-18 Thread Curtis Poe
> use strict; > use CGI; > my $q = new CGI; > my $password = $q->param( "password" ); > > if ($password eq 'password'){ #only an example# > print < ~~~ To Run Script Two, Three , Four , > etc.~~~ > > It works but how secure is it assuming nobody is going to see the > 'password'? H

Re: Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-18 Thread Roger C Haslock
om: "Grierson, Garry (UK07)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roger C Haslock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:20 PM Subject: RE: Security Suggestions Please! > 1) Ok point taken. > > 2) Mabey a little unclear here:

RE: Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-18 Thread Grierson, Garry (UK07)
K07); [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Security Suggestions Please! > > At 12:22 PM 9/18/2001 +0200, Grierson, Garry (UK07) wrote: > >I have to secure a newly developed web search service that deals with > >sensitive fiscal information, this originally consisted of Perl sc

RE: Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-18 Thread Grierson, Garry (UK07)
Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:42 PM > To: Grierson, Garry (UK07) > Subject: Re: Security Suggestions Please! > > (This is not a perl/cgi question) > > 1) > It is easier to manage changes if data is held in a database. By similar > triangles, it is easier to manage secur

Re: Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-18 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 12:22 PM 9/18/2001 +0200, Grierson, Garry (UK07) wrote: >I have to secure a newly developed web search service that deals with >sensitive fiscal information, this originally consisted of Perl scripts that >called html pages or other scripts. The default page ran a rudimentary login >script that

Security Suggestions Please!

2001-09-18 Thread Grierson, Garry (UK07)
I have to secure a newly developed web search service that deals with sensitive fiscal information, this originally consisted of Perl scripts that called html pages or other scripts. The default page ran a rudimentary login script that launched a variety of html pages or further scripts, the html