From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John T. Williams" Subject: ipaddress from hostname Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 17:14:58 -0400 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <007901c32882$f08148d0$ed64a8c0@descartes> References: <001a01c3236e$6249bc00$ed64a8c0@descartes> <000c01c32693$4d336e10$ed64a8c0@descartes> <002801c32759$5c6c9b60$a885bc3e@alanmari> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "John T. Williams" Cc: linux-c-programming I want to be able to get the ipv4 address of a hostname, what function can i use? Sincerely, John T. Williams jtwilliams@vt.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew" To: "John T. Williams" Cc: "linux-c-programming" Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 5:05 AM Subject: Re: Password Encryption & Philosophy > Is it necessary to store the password? IMHO it is bad policy to store the > password anyway because if someone gets physical access to your box they can > access everything without having to even look in the password file. This > could be collegues at work, friends or family at home, quite a lot of people > really. I'd avoid it if possible and not add the 'feature'. > > If it has to go in I would encrypt it to disk, what you need to find is > something reasonably uniqe to seed it with. Perhaps a nic mac address or > something like that. Lets face it, if someone is really serious about it > they can get round anything, it only took a couple of weeks for versions of > XP with the security functions completely by-passed to start making the > rounds for instance. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John T. Williams" > To: "John T. Williams" > Cc: "linux-c-programming" > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:07 AM > Subject: Password Encryption & Philosophy > > > > I had a problem, and I was wondering if anyone had a solution. > > I'm writing a client which gives the user the option to store their > > password, and I want to lend some security to the password being stored. > My > > problem is that no matter what algorithm I use to encrypt and decrypt the > > password (it can't be a one way hash, bc I have to be able to send it to > the > > server in its original form), anyone who has access to the source code and > > the encrypted password can get the original password back. Does anyone > have > > any suggestions on how to encrypt a password with an open source algorithm > > and yet lend more security stored information. > > > > Sincerly, > > John T. Williams > > jtwilliams@vt.edu > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-c-programming" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html