[sf-perl] OT: Secure password storage

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "David" == David Alban <extasia at extasia.org> writes:


David> also, i've taken to placing "garbage" in all of my pgp-encrypted
David> files.  i use the following to generate it:

David>     #!/usr/bin/perl

David>     use warnings;
David>     use strict;

David>     $ENV{ PATH } = '/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin';

David>     my $size = shift || 1024;

David>     my $s;

David>     open my $fh, '/dev/random' or die "$0: can't open /dev/random: $!\n";
David>     if ( sysread( $fh, $s, $size ) != $size ) {
David>       die "sysread failed to read $size bytes from /dev/random: $!\n";
David>     } # if
David>     close $fh;

David>     my $cmd = "openssl base64";

David>     open my $CMD, "|$cmd" or die "$0: can't open command '$cmd': $!\n";
David>     print $CMD $s;
David>     close $CMD;

You missed "openssl rand -base64 1024", eh?

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