Hi,
I'm building a program for the YMCA I work at that needs to retrieve an ODBC
username and password from a server. I doubt anyone would try to sniff the
data however for completion's sake I would like to implement an SSL
connection between my client and my server. However if I take this one step
forward I also need to encrypt the ODBC connection data that resides on the
server. How do I make sure that the ODBC username and password file is
secure? Should I encrypt that file with a public key and hard code the
private key into the server?
I am fairly new to encryption and I have never programmed with it before so
these questions may seem ignorant, please excuse me if that is the case.
Are there any issues, with hard coding the private key into the server
program, that I should be aware of?
As well if I do use the OpenSSL library can it be compiled on OS X, Windows
XP, and Linux?
I'm developing my program using wxWidgets and would like to maintain as much
cross compatibility as I can.
Liam
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