Re: securely getting the user's password

2008-03-08 Thread Chick
> But a far bigger security hole is that the password is sitting there in > your securePass variable in plain text. What are you doing about that? Precisely why I though to use wipe() that way. The password is there in plain text as long as it has to and then one call of securePass.wipe() and its

securely getting the user's password

2008-03-08 Thread Chick
Hello, I'm writing a security tool which requies wiping off the memory of certain string after being used, which I've done by implementing it as a mutable list as follow: class secureStr: def __init__(self, str): self.__s = [] for i in range(len(str)): self.s += st