Re: Obscuring sensitive data in Perl code?

Don't put them in the source. Put them in a separate file, and pull in that file. Then be very careful whom you show that file to.

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Re: Re: Obscuring sensitive data in Perl code? by $code or die (Deacon) on Mar 11, 2001 at 23:10 UTC
++, but still, what is to stop someone from doing this to the original script: (pseudo-code)... `my $db_password = get_password("filename"); print $db_password; # someone could insert this... my $dbh = DBI->connect(.....);` [download] I don't think there is any way around this is there? Security through obscurity (while obviously bad for other reasons) falls down on this issue too. `$ perldoc perldoc`	[reply] [d/l]
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