in reply to Security: balancing two conflicting password policies
I suppose that could be construed as skirting the official policy, but you can point out truthfully that the stated policy conditions are met: the password is not stored as clear text in source code, config file or registry. (It's built on the fly via variables that are likely to have unsuitable values if the script is usurped.)
If you are not able to change the password, play with a few different ways of deriving a string, until you find one such that a base64 MD5 sig contains the characters that make up the password, and build some suitably obfuscated way of pulling those characters in the needed order out of the sig.
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Re^2: Security: balancing two conflicting password policies
by steelrose (Scribe) on May 13, 2005 at 14:23 UTC |