[iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

[Mark Wieder]

J. Landman Gay <jacque at ...> writes:

> Not al> If my password is "parrot", then I can either store that word and
> risk its discovery, or I can use "ask password" to encrypt it so that it's 
> obscured. After encryption "parrot" becomes: =h`//q . That's the string 
> you store in the stack for later comparisons. If a user enters the 
> encrypted text in the password dialog it won't work, only "parrot" will.

Since today much software is parroted, encrypting strings, passwords,
other user information, or even entire stacks can help prevent software
parrocy and data theft.

-- 
 Mark Wieder