Ever since I started using PHP and MySQL I felt a bit uncomfortable about my password being shown plain text. Here is a quick idea how to obfuscate it using base64 encoding.
To make it easier (and as a part of getting familiar with Qt framework) I wrote small application to encode/decode my password:
Feel free to use it.
Application is written using Qt 4.5.1 framework and compiled for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
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