How di I hide or encrypt the username n password connecting to a DB 1

[FreshmenProgrammer]

I was just wondering how i can encrypt or hide the connection string or mainly the username and password information from users. I am connecting to mySQL through .jsp here. Also I am coding a test program with mySQL but i have to connect to DB2 connect. Will that be a hard transition and is the encryption for logging in the same as it would be here. I new to programming. I hope someone can help me out. Thank you.

String connectionURL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test2?user=whatever&password=whatever";

 

[sedj]

If you want to encrypt anything, then you need to use the JCE (Java Cryptography Extension). See

http://www.java.sun.com

to download it. I suggest reading the simple tutorials there on cryptography aswell.

The JDBC API allows transparency between database vendors. So you should be able to run the same code against MySQL as you can against DB2 (in theory).

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