NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/lang/pascal/8538

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Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!netsys!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!cantva!cctr132
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: password encryption (e.g. in bat files)
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From: [e-mail] (Nick FitzGerald, PC Software Consultant, CSC, UoC, NZ)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:59:20 GMT
Reply-To: Nick FitzGerald <[e-mail]>
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Roelof
Oldenhuis) writes:

> Maybe this is not the wright group, but I am looking for a program (utility)
> that can hide strings (passwords) in batch files (or exe files).
> The reason is obvious; I want to login with a batch file and I don't want to
> show my password in it.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but this seems like a pointless
search.

If you can't guarantee the physical security of your PC against
unauthorized people reading a batch file on it, then you can't guarantee
its security from unauthorized people executing or copying the batch
file (and any associated programs), so you can't do this "securely" no
matter how clever and involved a system you devise?

(Actually, having just written that, I think I have thought of a way to
do it, but it involves some pretty ugly low-level trolling around the
system, and may need to be login program specific.)

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