[iOS] Ask password not encrypted?
Bob Sneidar
bobs at twft.com
Tue Feb 28 15:55:27 EST 2012
<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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