ENCODE

[Eugene Tsyrklevich]

~sdpm~
considering that the password would need to be stored in the perl script
itself, encrypting the password gives you no additional security.

what you want to use instead is one-way hash (SHA-1 should do)


On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:49:58PM -0700, Douglas Wilson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Fentin" <joel at cts.com>
> To: <san-diego-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:08 PM
> Subject: ENCODE
> 
> 
> > I don't want to use ENCRYPT for the password because there is no way to
> see
> > what the password is. So I tried ENCODE which is two way. ENCODE seems to
> > wipe out leading zeros. Any suggestions?
> 
> You could try something like Crypt::CBC with maybe Crypt::Blowfish as the
> backend...
> 
> HTH,
> -Doug
~sdpm~

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