G5/Panther and ... Encryption (was G5/Panther and Rev)

[Mark Brownell]

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 11:28  PM, Alex Rice wrote:

> On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 12:10  AM, Mark Brownell wrote:
>>  I want to put the XML text of each transaction into 300 separate 
>> items of an array. I then would like to save this array as an 
>> external file. It wouldn't be saved as text it would be saved as an 
>> array file. I could then use answer to open it with my application 
>> that could then access it.
>
> You CAN do exactly that by using a "data stack" via custom properties! 
> See this excellent post by Richard 
> http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/metacard/tips/stk001.htm
>
> Alex Rice, Software Developer

Also from the article:
"Another tip: If you want to store data in a way that isn't obvious for 
someone to read if they open the stack file in a binary editor, you can 
use the compress and decompress functions on data you store in custom 
props, which will also reduce the size of the data file."

I could also add Blowfish encryption to this at this point. Compression 
and encryption, all in a neat package, nice. It looks like it might 
work fine as a blob storage system as well.

I guess I'm just a thick-head.  Thanks for showing me this in a way 
that I could relate to it. This is exactly what I needed.

Mark
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