HELP! with password storage scheme/deobfuscation

Question

Our company provides an LDAP lookup on company employees-which is great. However, it is up to me to come up with a reversible alogrithm that allows the password to be stored without being clear-obfuscation.
The code supplied thus far is:
package phonebook;
* The Setup class is used to configure SSL parameters for connecting
* to the directory.  It also provides a static main method for obtaining
* the encrypted or obfuscated String version of a supplied password.
* To obtain the obfuscated form of a password, run
* java phonebook.setup obfuscate <some password>
* The obfuscated passwords received can be placed in the
* web.xml file as servlet parameters in order to avoid specifying
* keystore and truststore passwords in clear text.
class setup {
        setup() {};
        public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
            if (args[0] != null && args[0].equalsIgnoreCase("obfuscate"))  {
                    System.out.println("Obfuscation code needs to be implemented.");
        public static String deobfuscate(String s) {
            String output = s;
           //Implement deobfuscation function here to manipulate the output.
            return output;
}I'm not really concerned how the algorithm works (ie. how it changes the password; for example turning letters into numbers, lowercase to upper case, etc). I basically just need to throw in a function that will obfuscate my password. Any help/examples are greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

I still haven't been able to make any progress with this, and am now attempting to add lots of debug statements to my code so that I can see where the algorith is failing.
The problem with this is that printf doesn't work due to the fact that the code isn't executed from the console, and I cannot get the output to log functions to work. These are the logging functions I have tried:
slapi_log_info_ex(SLAPI_LOG_INFO_AREA_ALL, SLAPI_LOG_INFO_LEVEL_DEFAULT, SLAPI_LOG_NO_MSGID, SLAPI_LOG_NO_CONNID, SLAPI_LOG_NO_OPID, "MD5 PLUGIN", "In MD5Update, partLen is %i\n", partLen);
slapi_log_warning_ex(-1, SLAPI_LOG_NO_MSGID, SLAPI_LOG_NO_CONNID, SLAPI_LOG_NO_OPID, "MD5 PLUGIN", "MD5 PLUGIN", "In MD5Update, partLen is %i\n", partLen);
(where partLen is a valid integer).
No errors are thrown either in compilation or execution, though these statements are not adding anything into the logs. I've ensure that all possible logging options are enabled by using the Sun One console.
Does anyone know why these functions are not working, or of a way that I could send output elsewhere? My next thought is to try creating a text file and outputting to that.