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[Mod: in a disk crash I lost the original of this message posted by Dave to linux-security so this one is from bugtraq, reposted with author''s permission -- alex] This old problem refuses to die. #!/bin/sh # # yankpw # # Under a lot of linux distributions(I know Redhat 3.0.3 and Slackware 3.0) # /var/log/messages is world readable. If a user types in his password at # the login prompt,

I use a solution to crypt a string that I found using OpenSSL. But the crypted string becomes very long, too long for a varchar 255 to hold it. What can I do to make it shorter? Or should I just use text as column in the mysql db? public_key_file = ''lib/public.pem'' public_key = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(File.read(public_key_file)) @encrypted_string =

Hello all, The topic of plugin dependencies has come up before and it doesn''t seem to have been addressed by core or core doesn''t seem to think it''s an issue. I''ve looked at the current edge code and don''t see anything new, so if I''ve missed something *please* let me know. The following article makes mention of a require_plugin

I''m working on encrypting some data using blowfish. The previous implementation was done using php as follows. $key = ''some key''; $data = ''data to be encrypted'' $iv = pack(''H*'', substr($key, 0, 16)); $literak_key =", $key.$key.$key.substr($key,16),"; $cipher = mcrypt_module_open(MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, '''',