Use of the encryption features in 2.6

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Bill,

An easy way to encrypt the contents of a field:

on mouseUp
   encrypt fld 1 using blowfish with password "12345678"
   put the result into rslt
   if rslt is empty then
     put it into fld 2
   else
     put rslt into fld 2
   end if
end mouseUp

and decrypt it using

on mouseUp
   decrypt fld 2 using blowfish with password "12345678"
   put the result into rslt
   if rslt is empty then
     put it into fld 2
   else
     put rslt into fld 2
   end if
end mouseUp

To use these scripts, just make one stack with two fields and
two buttons. The two buttons should contain these scripts.

When you encrypt a container, you will always find the resulting
value in the it variable. Normally, you would replace the
contents of the original container with the contents of the it
variable.

Best,

Mark


Bill Vlahos wrote:
> Has anyone published a description of how to use the encryption features 
> of 2.6?
> 
> I have a program that stores data in custom properties on several cards 
> (major catagories) which I want to encrypt. It would be nice to click a 
> check box to automatically encrypt the entire stack but I don't think it 
> works that way.
> 
> I'm assuming that I need to encrypt the data before putting it into the 
> custom property and decrypt it when bringing it out. This doesn't sound 
> that hard but very tedious. The nature of this program requires that it 
> will be doing this all the time that it is running so it can always be 
> in a "saved" state on the drive.
> 
> The docs are pretty clear on what the parameters are but not on how I 
> would actually implement this in a real program.
> 
> Is there a tutorial somewhere that I missed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill Vlahos

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