Hi, on a 10 meg text file, I would use the "crypto filesystem" to encrypt it. Then all writes to it will be transparently encrypted and you only need to give the key at boot time or when you need to restart the "crypto filesystem". Basically your text file will get mounted via a loopback device as it's own file system. I guess you could get around the password problem, by having yourself paged when there is a failure, and then ssh in to restart the crypto filesystem. Maybe you could even automate that part of it, and at least keep the password on a separate machine. Otherwise, you best bet is just to obfuscate the passord. Hide it in some binary file, and use some obfuscated way of extracting it, so at least a hacker will have to really work thru a bunch of files to find it. It really isn't too hard to hide something from the casual hacker.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.