----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Local storage of password
> > That'd be too easy. He stated that he needs to prevent the user from > re-entering the password upon their next use of the application. And it would. User logs in with password. Server passes back hashed version of user logon+password as a key. Server remembers this key. Client saves this key locally and passes it through on future accesses. Server looks up this key to check it's one it handed out previously. Still open to abuse though, even if username/password values are still secret. Paul > > Tom Chiverton wrote: >> On Tuesday 04 Dec 2007, rmarples wrote: >>> requirement that I can't store the encryption key in the source code as >>> a >>> string literal. I'm wondering if you or anybody else has ideas on how to >>> handle this? >> >> Sorry to jump in mid-thread, but if you just need to check a password is >> the >> same as one entered in the past, just store and compare against a hash. >> > > -- > Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur, Software Developer, Author, > Recording Engineer > AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 > -- > My Company: <http://www.dot-com-it.com> > My Podcast: <http://www.theflexshow.com> > My Blog: <http://www.jeffryhouser.com> > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
