oh my, trust became so old fashioned... 3rd party hosts get money exactly because they are trustworthy. if they're not, they will not get any customers anyway. so let them secure your credentials, they can do that better than you.
Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2013 07:05:56 UTC+1 schrieb Gregg Caines: > > You shouldn't look to compilation to solve this problem, because > compilation is not encryption. Even if it was compiled C, anyone who can > open a hexeditor can see your username and password in there. I bet you > could even see it from notepad. > > An encryption scheme won't be bulletproof either, because you've got to > put the decryption logic on the machine as well, or your app won't actually > be able to use the decrypted username/password. > > Of course you could encrypt anyway; that's at least mildly harder than > reading plain text (but still pretty trivial to decrypt -- they just need > to console.log(decryptedPassword) before you use it in your code). > > I think you've either got to trust your 3rd-party hosts, or stop using > 3rd-party hosts. As with most scenarios, if someone malicious has full > access to your machine, there's not much you can do. > > G > > > > On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 2:31:55 AM UTC-8, Koti Kanna wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am using npm module imap to fetch emails. where it requires username >> and password to fetch mails. This mail client i am hosting on a third party >> machine. My worry is, if any body open this file they can actually see my >> user name and password. Is there any way to precompile this module into >> machine code? >> >> Do you have any plans to support executables for nodejs Apps, before it >> touches version 1.0? >> >> Thanks >> Koti >> >> P.S.: The one and only language right now i know is JavaScript. >> > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
