Re: encrypt database user info in the Torque.properties?

2007-05-25 Thread Ivor Clarke
One other option is that some JDBC drivers such as JTDS allow you to use Windows Accounts for authentication against the database. Of course that presumes that you are using Windows and a DB platform that supports this method of authentication. -Ivor On May 24, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Greg Monr

RE: encrypt database user info in the Torque.properties?

2007-05-25 Thread Thomas Fischer
One thing to remember is that if the attacker has access to the encrypted password and to the decryption code, he can decrypt the password himself. By this I do not want to suggest that encrypting the password makes no sense (it makes the attack a lot harder), but one needs to remember that there i