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<node id="975271" title="Keeping a password safe." created="2012-06-08 22:10:13" updated="2012-06-08 22:10:13">
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perlquestion</type>
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Steve_BZ</author>
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&lt;p&gt;Hi Monks,
&lt;p&gt;How do keep passwords safe in an interpreted language like perl?
&lt;p&gt;OK, maybe you start off by keeping them in an encrypted file, but as soon as you read them into a variable, they become visible.
&lt;p&gt;What to do.
&lt;p&gt;Regards
&lt;p&gt;Steve.</field>
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