Re: [RFC] - Custom Subversion library for encrypting cached passwords

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> So what if we were to write a simple library for our auth system that
> used one of these routines for encrypting data and we allowed the
> "key" to be determined at ./configure time? Something like
> --with-svn-key=MY_S3CR3T_K3Y. Would this be any more secure or is it
> trivial to figure out the key that was used by looking at the binary?

It would likely be pretty easy to write a tool that would extract the
secret key from the binary.

-garrett

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