RE: Passwords in Client Access File Transfers and Delphi/400

[Chris Bipes <rpg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use a switch instead of a hub.  All servers should be on a switch to prevent
their traffic from being broadcast to all nodes.  If you use switches
exclusively, you never have to worry about someone sniffing.  Get a switch
that is intelligent enough to have your Network Administrator monitor
network traffic.  Cost more than hubs, 2 - 2.5 time more, but work every
penny when you look at the security it adds as well as the performance
increase you get.

Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.         http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive    Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928 Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Moulsdale [mailto:alan.moulsdale@virgin.net]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 6:43 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Passwords in Client Access File Transfers and Delphi/400


Hello All,

Does anybody know a secure way to store the user IDs and passwords required
by a Client Access file transfer and a Delphi/400 program that run as an
automated task on an NT server?

I know that when they are transmitted anybody with a sniffer could look at
them, what I want is to stop people from looking at the batch file on the
server and seeing them in their unencrypted forms.

I just wondered if any of you have got around this problem?

Many thanks

Alan
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