storing passwords

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, "Brian Waskiewicz" <bwaskiew at indiana.edu> wrote:

> I have a Python script that makes a Telnet connectio to a remote server and
> right now I have the password just stored within my code.  I'd don't like
> the idea of leaving the password available like that (the script runs
> automatically every night, so I can't prompt the user for it), so is there
> any other way to store the password in some kind of encrypted fashion??

Read the fetchmail FAQ on ESR's site to see why this does not afford any
kind of protection.
(Hint: If you encrypt it, where would you put the key?)
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