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

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