Encryption of Saved Stack of Standalone (Linux)

Robert Brenstein rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Wed Feb 4 08:12:47 EST 2004


>On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 01:02 PM, Bojsza wrote:
>
>>From the Transcript dictionary for encrypt it says that mcEncrypt 
>>is an internal function...so how can I do it? Is their another 
>>function built in?
>
>Look at password and passKey in the Transcript dictionary.
>
>When you clone to create a data stack, set the password and the passKey.
>When you load a data stack, set the passKey.
>I'm not sure whether you need to empty the passKey before saving the 
>data stack; I would imagine so.
>
>Guessing...
>
>Dar Scott

Unfortunately, setting password protection for a stack is currently a 
one-way street: setting passKey at execution time will open the stack 
to prying eyes with no option to close it back until Revolution quits.

I submitted a bug/enhancement request last year asking to implement 
setting passKey to empty to relock (re-encrypt) the stack if it was 
unlocked at runtime (can't quote bug # since Bugzilla is being 
reworked). May be more votes are needed. I can't imagine it is hard 
to implement.

Robert Brenstein


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