[iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

[Bob Sneidar]

<groan> ;-)

Bob 


On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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