Re: [VFS] Passing around password as byte[] instead

2013-07-08 Thread Grant Overby
I would expect char[] or byte[] to be just as easily recognizable. People have used them to store passwords because those data types can be zero'd out; whereas, String is immutable and references are kept by the intern mechanism of String. If the char[] or byte[] is ever converted to a String (or o

Re: [VFS] Passing around password as byte[] instead

2013-07-08 Thread Grant Overby
Also worth noting: an extensively developed [Citation Needed], open source, java obfu tool (proguard) considers even proper String encryption to have such little value as to not include it. http://proguard.sourceforge.net/#FAQ.html On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > "Roger L.

Re: [Collections] Generic Fork

2010-11-04 Thread Grant Overby
ould need an officer of my company (and myself) to sign: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt . Is this correct? Is this all that is needed to protect the ASF? -- Grant Overby Senior Developer FloorSoft, Inc. Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "

[Collections] Generic Fork

2010-11-04 Thread Grant Overby
forge project that once had a go at this ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/collections/develop), but their commit logs ended in 2007. I know of no other related projects. Are there any? -- Grant Overby Senior Developer FloorSoft, Inc. Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines.