How to obscure a password

Batista, Facundo FBatista at uniFON.com.ar
Thu Feb 26 11:43:26 EST 2004


Rene Pijlman wrote:

#- You can only obscure a password in an obscure way, not in a 
#- secure way.

You're right.


#- >I can't hash it (with md5 or something), because I not need 
#- to compare the
#- >password the user enters with a previous one.
#- >
#- >I need to restore the password later and use it as if the 
#- user just entered
#- >it.
#- 
#- I use rotor for that.
#- http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-rotor.html

Nice, but it's deprecated since 2.3, :(

.	Facundo




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