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Tony Dietrich wrote: | On Friday 18 Feb 2005 16:36, Nathaniel Hall wrote: | <snip> | | Nathaniel | | I have a feeling you aren't thinking straight, or are describing your problem | incorrectly. | | What do you mean by passwords? | System passwords are normally encrypted using one-way algorithms .. so there | is no way to decrypt them. So the second part of your problem just isn't | relevant. | If you are talking about PGP (or similar) encryption, then yes, this is | possible in perl, if you have the right perl modules installed. | I want to be able to store passwords for lookup, not system passwords. Similar to many programs available for Windows and Yaps on Palm. You enter in usernames and passwords. They are stored securely until you input the correct password to unlock those.
I haven't followed this whole thread but if you are going to access passwords via the web, use the password manager built into Mozilla (And probably firefox). Under Tools Password manager.
-- Robin Laing
