Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-05!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Login page password encription Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:44:46 -0800 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1131723957.992785@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <572dcee141a15@uwe><1131716192.866770@yasure> <1131720880.365925.66520@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1131720880.365925.66520@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 29 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:255231 PHernandez wrote: > DA Morgan wrote: > > >>How secure? Something simple like this can work in many situations: >> >>SELECT TRANSLATE('this is a secret', >>'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz', '0123456789qwertyuiop[kjhbv') >>FROM dual; >> >>SELECT TRANSLATE('p78o 8o 0 o42i4p', >>'0123456789qwertyuiop[kjhbv', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz') >>FROM dual; > > > I respect you a lot and all, but OP is asking about passwords. A system > where passwords are obfuscated in a reversible manner is broken, no > matter the type of system. > > --ph I agree completely ... Which is why I specifically referred the OP to the OBFUSCATION TOOLKIT and CRYPTO and asked "how much security is required?" -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)