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Re: Adding some random characters to Oracle password

From: David Fitzjarrell <fitzjarrell_at_cox.net>
Date: 28 Oct 2004 12:46:21 -0700
Message-ID: <9711ade0.0410281146.55b7262c@posting.google.com> 





"Alan" <alan_at_erols.com> wrote in message news:2ucl7nF27c487U1_at_uni-berlin.de...


> 




(snipped) 


>> Scalability is just one concern. What happens if the secret ID and




> password


>> ever get discovered?




> 

> It can't get discovered because it is hard-coded and compiled into the app.

> Source code is secured.

> 




(snipped)



I take it you've never used the strings utility in Unix ... a very
useful tool to extract readable, printable characters from a binary
file ...



David Fitzjarrell
Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 14:46:21 CDT












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