Re: Hiding passwords in password file?

[Felix E. Klee]

Felix E. Klee wrote:
> 2. Use Rot13 on the passwords. That's not very secure but better than
>    nothing. In standard EMACS, though, it only seems to be possible to
>    Rot13 a whole buffer and not a single selection but writing a simple
>    function that does this shouldn't be a problem.

Here's something else that just came into my mind: XORing passwords with a 
certain string of characters upon keypress. This would be more secure than 
Rot13 provided that that the string is well hidden.

Felix