Add file to Custom Property

[Jim Ault]

Now for the encryption...
base64 is not encryption.  It is conversion to another character  
representation, which is easily transparent to most word processors,  
such as BBEdit, TextEdit, etc.

You need to decide what level of security is required.
Read up, (especially if medical data is involved)


On Mar 13, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote:

> I want to add a file from disk to a custom property, encrypt it, and  
> save it. Then I want to be able to extract the file from the custom  
> property and open it in the appropriate application.
>
> The first step is to put the file into the custom property but my  
> code below only puts the path to the file.
> on mouseUp
>   answer file "Please select a file..."
>   put it into lFileToRead
>   -- Read the binary contents of a file into a variable
>   open file lFileToRead for binary read
>   read from file lFileToRead until end
>   put base64Encode(lFileToRead) into lBinaryFile -- not sure if this  
> is needed
>   close file lFileToRead
>   set the uFileStore of me to lBinaryFile
> end mouseUp
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Bill Vlahos

Jim Ault
Las Vegas