From: rpardee@...
Date: 2005-04-02T05:14:44+09:00
Subject: what password obfuscation options are there in standard ruby on windows?

Hey All,

I've got to write a script that will contain a password in it & would
like to make at least a token effort at obfuscating (if not actually
encrypting) it.

It looks to me like the only encrypt-y thing in the standard libs is
String.crypt, which does a one-way hash.  Is that right?  So it's
looking to me like I can Base64.encode it, or else download crypt-fog
or some such thing.

I'm using v1.8 on windows, btw.

Thanks!

-Roy