Developing Madness » base64 http://developingmadness.com/blog Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:32:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to obfuscate MySQL password http://developingmadness.com/blog/2009/05/10/how-to-obfuscate-mysql-password/ http://developingmadness.com/blog/2009/05/10/how-to-obfuscate-mysql-password/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 14:34:22 +0000 Raf http://developingmadness.com/blog/?p=24 password-code-banner-454x84

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.

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, base64_decode("cGFzc3dvcmQ="));

To make it easier (and as a part of  getting familiar with Qt framework) I wrote small application to encode/decode my password:

DontLook64

Feel free to use it.

Application is written using Qt 4.5.1 framework and compiled for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Download:

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