Using your own quote against you... ;) This is a makeshift solution to a lack of feature-set that a vendor has failed to provide. (does that make sense???) Anyhow, this is only meant to be a band-aid. I agree that davido's advice is good, and well founded. I'm not trying to deny that. But what I'm saying is that an ecrypted solution simply won't work in this situation. If it would, then my team wouldn't have spent the last couple months developing the script(s) they have to accomplish the task in the manner they have.

So, to hopefully set you're security minds at ease, no one has ever gotten in through our boundary, so the biggest threat is internal. The biggest of the internal threats is our "Red Team". And this particular "storage medium" is an unlikely target for that team. The intended obfuscation simpy removes it that much farther. Trust me, if the situation were different, I would be the one preaching the same things you are.

However, I believe that there is a time and place for everything, and this particular situation calls for obfuscation, NOT encryption. I don't mean to knock the suggestions of Aristotle and davido. But, they simply don't apply here. I've seen the things that you (they) do in the "Obfuscated Perl" section, and I'm merely asking for guidance on how to reproduce and apply it to my particular application.

In reply to Re^2: How to hide a password in a script? by dataking
in thread How to hide a password in a script? by dataking

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