Masking/Hiding a password in Perl Source

[Ric]

"Anybody"? You don't work with the same crew I do. I doubt more than
one of the fifty people with read access to that file would know what
to do with it. Of course, that isn't the point ....


... with the understanding, stated several times over, that this is
nothing more than security-through-obscurity, which is in fact no real
security at all, the point is not to keep access to the password from
authorized persons, the point is to keep it from being casually or
"accidentally" viewed.

Then just build the password through some functions inside your perl app .
This way you don't have it store in single variable. If you now compile
it with perl2exe it will be more difficult to grab the password then
using your decrypt function with acces to the file that holds your pass.

 

[J.D. Baldwin]

Then just build the password through some functions inside your perl
app .

Yeah, I liked the pack/unpack solution someone else mentioned. My own
situation kind of requires I do it in a separate file with strong
encryption, for purely political reasons. I am aware of how silly
this is, but I am also positive that my situation is not unique.