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Sent: 6/22/2006 12:40:07 PM
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Subject: Module to encrypt/store/retrieve/decrypt passwords
> Hi List,
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> I have a perl ftp client that I am changing to sftp. I was storing passwords
> in an unencrypted text file since security was not an issue. Now I need a
> means of obfuscating the pwd.
> Surely there is a handy perl module (for Win32) that will do this easily. I
> don't need to generate or check passwords, just encode, store, retrieve, and
> decode. Does anyone know of a perl module for this? Are there docs or links
> avail that describe how this is normally done? Thanks...
Try Digest::MD5. If all you need is obfuscation and not real encryption. For
real encryption, you might want to check one of the Crypt::* modules (check
CPAN, or search on Google for a what's out there).
-dZ.
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