Re: Ant tasks to encrypt or decrypt passwords from property files

2006-06-19 Thread danch
And if you can keep the keystore secret and protected, couldn't you keep the password secret and protected? Dominique Devienne wrote: OK, I see your point, although the key store has to remain 'secret' somehow, using file-system dependent permissions I guess, otherwise it's exposed as well. --D

Re: Ant tasks to encrypt or decrypt passwords from property files

2006-06-19 Thread danch
The classic response to the classic topic: if you can protect the decryption key adequately, why not simply protect the password adequately? Using encryption to enhance data security isn't a simple matter of "turning it on" - you have to consider these sorts of issues or all you'll be doing is