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  3. January 2003

Re: Password security

No.   Never decrypt a password.  Don't give a hacker a chance to to be
able to dump your program, or scan memory with a rogue pointer, or
something and find out the passwords.

Instead, when a user keys in his password, encrypt THAT, then compare
it to the original encrypted copy.

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 Mike.Barton@pinkroccade.co.uk wrote:
>      you could change the access program to adopt authority
> but this will not work if a user has *ALLOBJ authority.
> Possibly the best route would be to encrypt the data and than have the
> program de-encrpyt it.
>

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