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

[Alex Rice]

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 08:31  AM, Mark Brownell wrote:
> 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.

You're welcome... Custom properties are really deceptively simple it 
seems. I know I didn't focus on them right away either. Especially if 
you are expecting to find something like

myArray.serializeToFile("filename.xyz")


Alex Rice, Software Developer
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