From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Saving and Encoding Passwords
Date: 1999/11/17
Date: 1999-11-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80un1u$369$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38315e1a.0@silver.truman.edu
In article <38315e1a.0@silver.truman.edu>,
joshhighley@hotmail.com (Josh Highley) wrote:
> I'm writing an Ada program that checks email accounts. I'm storing
> the user name, password, and other info in a text file that my program
> references on startup. I obviously don't want to store the password
> unencoded. Thus, my question is how should I encrypt the password? Is
> there an Ada package that will do this? I thought of using the CPU id
No, not as a standard part of the compiler, anyway.
...
> or any other method of retrieving the CPU id. Is there a
> typical/standard/accepted way of encoding passwords?
There is ususally an OS call to help with this. On Unix, you can use
"crypt"
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-16 0:00 Saving and Encoding Passwords Josh Highley
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Josh Highley
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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