"Heinz" <Spacewalker4711(noSpam)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "rahulji" <rahuljiv@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:064c21f4734641fa97b49da4a16693d4@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Hi,
>> I have a different requirement.
>> i wrote a script which will contain an username and password of an FTP
>> server to which it will upload the data.
>>
>> i want to encrypt these username and password using DPAPIs so that no one
>> can read them.
>>
>> can anyone help in this regard?
>>
>> url:http://www.ureader.com/msg/1675127.aspx >
> I think it depends on what you want to achieve:
> if your concern is that somebody can snif username and password from your
> LAN or on the internet then maybe you need something like VPN or SFTP
> if you want to prevent that somebody reads the VBS sourccode then you can
> :
> -try to protect the VBS code with NFTS permissions "try" being the operative word here. I suspect that the OP wants people to
run this script that should not know the password, hence his post.
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> -compile the VBS to an (encrypted) .exe file (there are tools availlabe
> doing this)
But, again, just how secure is that encrypted information? The executable
must contain the code required to de-crypt the encrypted portions of the
executable, so reverse engineering is possible.
/Al