Unix Programming - Re: c printf/variables content visible in compiled binary. How to

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Re: c printf/variables content visible in compiled binary. How to

Benoit Lefebvre

2007-11-28, 7:34 pm

On Nov 28, 4:17 pm, dj3va...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca.invalid wrote:
> In article <dde51c0f-1f9d-46e2-b7e4-0612c96db...@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> Benoit Lefebvre <benoit.lefeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> ROT13 it?
> Who are you trying to hide it from, and why?
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> dave

It's an RSA ssh key.

My script is calling ssh to do some check on a list of remote systems
and I don't want the rsa key available on the filesystem or to any
user.

So my program create a temporary file and use it as the public key for
the ssh connection. Once it's done it erases the file.

--Ben