Password-protecting a stack

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Thu Apr 11 03:11:01 EDT 2002


Hey David,

Nope, it's running mostly on PC's. I'm sure I could store the content in the
scripts, but it seems mre prolbematic that way...especially if I want to
edit the content directly. Thanks for the idea. I'll chat it up with a bud
of mine here.

best,

Chipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of David Vaughan
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:36 PM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Password-protecting a stack
>
>
> Chipp
>
> Do you need to go cross-platform? How good do you need the protection to
> be?
>
> I was thinking that you may be able to use a scriptable encryption
> program on OSX to secure your stack between use, although it would still
> be accessible during the time it was decrypted and in use.
>
> A stream encryptor would remove the accessible-file problem, so the data
> was stored in a file and decrypted only in memory for insertion in an
> empty stack at startup (if that is where you need to have it). I do not
> know immediately of any stream encryptors useable by Rev unless you
> write a basic one yourself although I am sure they are out there (at
> least as a set of algorithms). It seems a popular field for writing
> free- and shareware.
>
> Sorry about the "thoughts" rather than "answers" nature of the response.
>
> regards
> David
>
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 04:32 , Chipp Walters wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your response, Wolfgang.
> >
> > I understand what you're saying. The problem I'm having is that I can
> > save a
> > stack, set the password, but still anyone with RunRev can view the
> > contents
> > of the saved stack (and are only prompted for the password when they
> > try to
> > edit a script) -- as I'm saving the stack for ONLY the contents (as in a
> > datafile) it doesn't provide me much security.
> >
> > thanks anyway,
> >
> > Chipp
> >
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