How can we store password other than plain text?

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Published on 2010-04-18T21:47:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 21:53 UTC
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I've found numerous posts on stackoverflow on how to store user passwords. However, I need to know what is the best way to store a password that my application needs to communicate with another application via the web? Currently, our web app needs to transmit data to a remote website. To upload the data, our web app reads the password from a text file and creates the header with payloads and submits via https.

This password in plain text on the file system is the issue. Is there any way to store the password more securely?

Thanks!

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