Re^2: How to hide a password in a script?

Obviously, none of this will be documented.

It's a very nice way to play mind games on someone. Particularly on the poor sap who inherits your job when you move on. :-)

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^3: How to hide a password in a script? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 07, 2004 at 05:29 UTC
Actually, I'd probably initialise the password (in the source) with a long hex string add a block of code that did some seriously complex bit-twiddling on it before its first use. I'd then surround it with a big block comments saying that: `################################################################### ## This block must not be altered or copy&pasted in any way. ### ## It will no longer work if it is. ### ## If this needs to be updated, ### ## a new block must be obtained from the systems security team! ### ###################################################################` [download] In any organisation, there has to be somebody who knows how things work! Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: How to hide a password in a script?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 07, 2004 at 05:29 UTC

Actually, I'd probably initialise the password (in the source) with a long hex string add a block of code that did some seriously complex bit-twiddling on it before its first use.

I'd then surround it with a big block comments saying that:

###################################################################
## This block must not be altered or copy&pasted in any way.    ###
## It will no longer work if it is.                             ###
## If this needs to be updated,                                 ###
## a new block must be obtained from the systems security team! ###
###################################################################
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In any organisation, there has to be somebody who knows how things work!

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon

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