Protecting passwords in source

[celliott]

This maybe a jr. perl user question. But you guys were really helpful with the my last problem. anyways to the question. Is their any way to encrypt passwords within your code for example:

$password = "password";

If i leave this within my code anyone can get the password. what would be your guys suggestion on how to do this?

Edited by Arunbear: Changed title from 'crypt', as per Monastery guidelines