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Re: opaque data types


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: opaque data types
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:11:21 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

On Fri,  7 Jun 2013 14:27:12 +0100 (BST) Christopher Schmidt <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

CS> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'd really like an opaque "password" type that doesn't print unless
>> retrieved with a special function, and is stored encrypted in memory.

CS> Why do you want that?

To store passwords and other sensitive data in a way so they are not
trivial to extract.  We've had some previous emacs-devel discussions
about this.

Ted




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