Noel,

> Steve,
>
> There is little point to having a reversibly encrypted password.  Such
> things are easily broken.

Well that depends on the cipher used and your definition of 'easy' I guess.

> Just make make config.xml readable only by the account running the James
server.

Works fine technically. The trouble is that copies of files containing
secure information do proliferate - as backups, in test environments, in
support requests, etc. Having sensitive information, such as passwords,
encrypted gives a level of protection in such cases.

Steve





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