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Re: V3 Installer one pager is ready for review

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:25:52 -0800

Sathyan Catari wrote:
>> In the case where the password is encrypted, I still don't understand
>> what password (or should I say "secret key") you're using to encrypt
>> the data. If it's a fixed password wired into the code, don't even
>> waste your time doing that because it provides no security at all.
> We don't do anything fancy. Its just a xor on String.getBytes() of
> password string.

Um, that's not encryption, that's obfuscation. It provides nothing
more than a false sense of security. Are there really people who
think that's solving some problem for them?