How to obscure a password

Rene Pijlman reply.in.the.newsgroup at my.address.is.invalid
Thu Feb 26 13:35:00 EST 2004


John Burton:
>Batista, Facundo wrote:
>> I'm doing a small program, in which the user will have the option 
>> to enter his/her password everytime, or just save it (to a file).

>Probably your best method is to [...] use AES or DES3 or similar 
>to encrypt the passwords. Of course you then have to keep the 
>encryption keyt secure 

No problem. Just ask the user to enter it everytime :-)

-- 
René Pijlman



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