Re: OODL: CFD: Leadership in the OpenCard Project

[DeRobertis]

At 9:34 AM +1000 on 5/3/99, Adrian Sutton wrote:

>Adrian:  How would you implement it so that the passwords remain 
>safe while the cgi can be placed in the downloads folder (so others 
>can make changes, bug fixes etc)?

One needs to encode passwords with a non-reversable function.

A bad example is summing the ascii values of all the characters.

I'd suggest looking one up somewhere.

I imagine someone going to ask me for URL's soon, so I'll go looking <g>.