Re: question regarding PServerConnection

Shantanu Sen wrote:
> I am using the cvslib library to connect to a CVS server to carry out
> various commands like checkout/checkin etc. The
> org.netbeans.lib.cvsclient.connection.PServerConnection has a
> setEncodedPassword method. How can I encrypt a password to supply to this
> method. I have a dialog which has a password field that the user supplies
> the password. I need to encrypt this password in order to call this method.
> 
> Any help will be highly appreciated.

package org.netbeans.lib.cvsclient.connection;

/**
  * Scrambles text (the password) using the standard scheme described in the
  * CVS protocol version 1.10. This encoding is trivial and should not be
  * used for security, but rather as a mechanism for avoiding inadvertant
  * compromise.
  * @author  Robert Greig
  */
public class StandardScrambler implements Scrambler

RG