Naive Question #108: Passwording stacks.

[Richmond]

On 04/13/2013 10:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond-
>
> Saturday, April 13, 2013, 11:47:37 AM, you wrote:
>
>> so, obviously, the good folk in Edinburgh did their work vis-a-vis
>> stopping password
>> protection in LC OSS properly!
>> doing the same sort of thing in the commercial version did not throw up
>> those
>> error messages.
> Ah! You're trying to do this in the OSS version....
>
> So, to be clear about this. NO. You can't do that.
> If you could set passwords then the encryption mechanism would be open
> source and I would easily be able to see and defeat your passwords for
> the same reason that you can't use a password-protected stack in the
> OSS version. Transparency of the code.
>
> Setting and using protected stacks is a feature of the commercial
> version of LC and is explicitly not supported in the OSS version.
>
> By design.
>
> That's how it's supposed to work.
>
> You can NOT use passwords to protect stacks in the OSS version.
>
> If it's still not clear let me know and I'll use shorter words.
>

Dear, sweet, Mark Wieder,

I am neither dear nor sweet, nor for a moment am I "that" goofy.

I only tried to set a password using LC OSS to see how the thing would 
react!

[ Let's hope none of those words are too polysyllabic for you . . . LOL ]

Richmond.