Bob Hood wrote:
I'm probably missing some crucial point here, but with Python being the host environment, why wouldn't the Python "keyring" module provide the hardened storage the OP is seeking?
The same problem arises. If the program can get the password out of the keyring, then so can any user who is capable of running the program. If nothing else, by inserting a print statement into the program at the point just after it has retrieved the password. Keyrings allow a user to keep his or her passwords secret from *other* users. The OP seems to want to keep the *user* of the password from being able to know it, which is fundamentally impossible. The best you can do is obfuscate it, but with Python code being so easy to reverse-engineer, you can't get much security that way. -- Greg _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
