How to obscure a password
Christopher A. Craig
list-python at ccraig.org
Fri Feb 27 10:06:54 EST 2004
"Lucas Raab" <pythongnome at hotmail.com> writes:
> The only problem with using rotor, is that, given the time, someone could
> decrypt the password file by using the encrypted form and guessing
> the key.
Or they could just steal the key. As he said, you can only obscure a
password in an obscure way, not a secure way.
--
Christopher A. Craig <list-python at ccraig.org>
If you threw a glass of cold water on a liberal in the middle of a sound
sleep, he'd jerk awake denouncing the religious right -- Ann Coulter
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