On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:06:07 -0000, Oltmans <rolf.oltm...@gmail.com> wrote:
But the thing is that I will ask the user for user name and password only once i.e. when they start the application for the first time. After that, I'm not supposed to ask the user name and password again. So in this scenario, if I store a hash on the disk I cannot retrieve plain-text string back from my hash as I've to send user name and password to the server in plain-text.
The words "massive security hole" spring to mind. Does your server really require you to reauthenticate so often? Can't you invoke some kind of secured protocol instead? -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
