Question

I want to encrypt/hide my connection string in my database.java class. I allready searched the internet but I didn’t find anything usefull, maybe I searched the wrong keywords? Here is my current code.

conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://database/db", "username", "password");

How can I hide the username and password? So only my application can see it? And you can’t see it when you extract the jar?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Encrypt the connection string is not what you need! I suppose you need a better way to store your password. For this you should store passwords, in a separate file that the application reads when it starts. That is the only real way to prevent the password from leaking as a result of decompilation.

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