RE: protecting the property file

["Lim Hock-Chai" <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Plain-text is the most common method that I see people in the java world
do.  Is there another better method?

 

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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:11 PM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: protecting the property file

On Jan 31, 2008 11:20 AM, Lim Hock-Chai <Lim.Hock-Chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Since property file sometime contains generic userID/password, I just 
> wonder how one prevents user from viewing the property file and at the

> same time allow that application to access it.
Storing passwords (or other sensitive data) in plain-text files is such
a bad idea, maybe now is the time to design a more-secure solution,
rather than enabling the insecure solution.

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