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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