"Passord" isn't an english word ;)

My co-worker told me about a program he wrote in his hacking days which tried a brute force assault on a server over http, giving a name and password from a list of first names.

Apparently a lot of people use their first name for both their username and password - so all you need is a list of popular first names....

How about hard-coded passwords - can anyone comment on the security of having an admin password written into a cgi script?

I put an admin section into a site, which is based around a single cgi script. The password for using the admin controls is held as a scalar in the cgi code, and I'm hoping thats pretty safe (because the server will always execute that script and not list it to the browser). Am I fooling myself?

willdooUK
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In reply to Re: Re: Encrypting Largish Files by willdooUK
in thread Encrypting Largish Files by filmo

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