Creation password at runtime

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

George Simon propounded (on Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:08:32PM -0500):
| > I see George Simon's post:
| 
| >> Why couldn't a simple:
| >>
| >> video off
| >> pushkey "creationpassword"{"[entr]"
| >> lookup thefile = (fn)  k=1  i=a  -npx
| >>
| >> get around this problem?
| 
| > Neat idea - and although this might work (I'd have to test to do it only  > once since I have a loop of these lookups), I'm not keen on the idea of
| > putting a hard-coded reference of a password in the table - that would be, > in my mind, just as much a security hole as not asking for the password.
| > Or at least, I guess it would if the file that this prc is in has a 
| > different creation password than the one that I'm doing the lookup to.
| 
| Do you supply the prc tables to your customers?
| If you don't, then there is no way for them to see it.

George, a quoted string in a prc.table is assuredly readable in the
resulting tok.table.  It is not encoded.

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JP
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