Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-30 Thread Miguel Santinho
Em (On) Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:36:32PM -0400, Bob Showalter escreveu (wrote): Ken Perl wrote: The password used to access a ftp server is stored in a text file, the perl program gets the password from the file, the pass it to the ftp server for logon, this is the background. The

Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-30 Thread Ken Perl
In fact, I are just writing a demo program used in a presentation, when I open its config file through screen sharing, I don't want the visiter see the plain text password. On 8/30/05, Miguel Santinho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em (On) Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:36:32PM -0400, Bob Showalter escreveu

Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-30 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Ken Perl wrote: In fact, I are just writing a demo program used in a presentation, when I open its config file through screen sharing, I don't want the visiter see the plain text password. Why didn't you say so? my $password =

RE: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-30 Thread Cintron,Jose J.
NOW -Original Message- From: JupiterHost.Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 08:38 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: encrypt the password stored in a file Ken Perl wrote: In fact, I are just writing a demo program used in a presentation, when I open its

Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-29 Thread Owen Cook
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Ken Perl wrote: The password used to access a ftp server is stored in a text file, the perl program gets the password from the file, the pass it to the ftp server for logon, this is the background. The requirement is encrypt the password store in a more secure way, and

Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-29 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Ken Perl wrote: The password used to access a ftp server is stored in a text file, the perl program gets the password from the file, the pass it to the ftp server for logon, this is the background. The requirement is encrypt the password store in a more secure way, and the perl program could

Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-29 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
JupiterHost.Net wrote: Ken Perl wrote: The password used to access a ftp server is stored in a text file, the perl program gets the password from the file, the pass it to the ftp server for logon, this is the background. The requirement is encrypt the password store in a more secure

Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-29 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Wiggins d'Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Considering it is FTP who cares about permissions too. It is an insecure protocol to begin with, the password is sniffable during transmission anyways, really the words FTP and secure don't belong in a sentence together, unless they are included with

RE: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-29 Thread Bob Showalter
Ken Perl wrote: The password used to access a ftp server is stored in a text file, the perl program gets the password from the file, the pass it to the ftp server for logon, this is the background. The requirement is encrypt the password store in a more secure way, and the perl program could

Re: encrypt the password stored in a file

2005-08-29 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Maybe the protocol is SFTP and the transmission is secure... *transmission* maybe not source code, which is the OP's issue... By the way, isn't there a perl module that can crypt a string using a password (which can be used to decrypt it back)? Yes but then you have to store the cypher or