Encrypting passwords

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From: nicolasr
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 01:26

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Hi,

does anyone have a pair of routines that let me
encrypt/decrypt passwords that I want to store
in an INI-file?
I would store the necessary key(s) in the executable.
I know that is not very secure because one could
disassemble the exe file and search for the keys
but my main concern is that I currently have stored
the passwords as plain text! I tried a simple
XOR-algorithm but I would prefer something more
advanced probably using CryptoApi?

If the used algorithm produces binary data I would
move the password away from the INI file and store
it in a separate binary file.

thanks for any comments,
Nick

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