I agree. It's not so much for bullet-proof encryption as it is for obscuring it from the 98% of the people who can't think that far. The irony is that it's only that other 2% that will be able to do anything with the data anyway. The source never leaves our building and this is only for internal use. Part of the reasoning is that it just makes some people feel better to not have it right there in plain text. As an example, one of my POD tools allows you to see the docs from our intranet and offers a link to see the actual source. That exposes the plain text to a lot of people who just don't need to see that data, but who could benefit from the general ability to see the source.

This is mostly why I've only thought about it and never implemented it. I don't really see much added value. But I suspect I will have to do something like this at some point for "other" reasons. We have some other very weak encryption methods that are used internally but the mere existence of them keeps some people happy.

Boy that sounds pathetic ... too late to post anonymously. 8-)

In reply to Re: Re: Embed passwords (Acme::Clutter idea) by steves
in thread Embed passwords (Acme::Clutter idea) by Solo

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