Oh yes of course, just search it for strings....gosh can't believe I forgot that! So what about the other stuff SirDice? Like the string stuff (which I'm extremely confused about, because it was declared in "#include <string>", meaning it's not a variable type, yet it was still assigned to a variable as a type ), character arrays, pointers, strncmp/strcmp? You don't need to explain them all, I'll research the rest myself, but please could you say which one I would use if I were writing a professional program, and which one any random cracker could get without breaking a sweat? Thanks for everything so far!

edit: Wow thanks sec_ware, sorry I didn't see your post as I was already replying to SirDice's! In your case (i.e the buffer case), I'm guessing that we would still have to declare the constant to which the variable is going to verify the password, so technically a cracker can crack the password fairly easily, no matter which method we use? Also, do you know of any Linux equivalents of hiew? Thanks,

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