How to obscure a password

[Rene Pijlman]

Peter Hansen:
>Is it that you're going to be sending this password to a remote system,
>so basically you've got a utility which allows storing the password
>locally so that a user doesn't have to retype it but can still access
>the remote system?  (If that's the case, you could title this utility
>"security-removal-tool" because that's what it is.

Many - if not all - FTP-tools, e-mail tools, web browsers etc. support it
though. I guess they rely on the security of the local file system.

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René Pijlman