From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T02:12:50+09:00
Subject: Re: what password obfuscation options are there in standard ruby on windows?

On Friday 01 April 2005 15:14, rpardee@comcast.net wrote:
> 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.

There's also 'cyphersaber' on RAA.  It adds methods to string to encrypt 
and decrypt.  I haven't used it much but it seems good (commercial 
restrictions though).

Ben