RFC-18: Encryption of passwords in mapfiles

[Daniel Morissette]

I have created RFC-18 that proposes a mechanism to encrypt database 
connection information (mostly passwords) in mapfiles:

   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-18

Other than trying to figure out how to use OpenSSL, this is a relatively 
simple addition that shouldn't have much impact on MapServer.

Before we vote on this, I would be interested in feedback from the 
various database connection maintainers since I want this to work for at 
least PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, SDE and OGR.

Also, if anyone has experience with OpenSSL or pointers to sample code 
that uses it to do a similar task then I would be very interested 
(Unfortunately the OpenSSL documentation seems to be quite poor). I'm 
also interested if you know of better/simpler alternatives that could be 
used instead of OpenSSL for the encryption functions.

Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/