Can compress also password protect?

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Sun Mar 21 18:18:16 EDT 2010


Bill,
are you planning on using ask password or using your own dialog? Ask
password is encrypted. Please see the entry in the dictionary regarding
this.

On 21 March 2010 16:07, Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:

> There is no provision in the Rev dictionary for other parameters in the
> compress or decompress function. The RFC shows one option for compression
> but nothing regarding encryption or password protection.
>
> Is there a cross platform way to add encryption requiring a password in the
> compress statement or should I do this as two separate steps? If I encrypt
> first then I will lose any advantage of compression because there will be no
> patterns.
>
> Bill Vlahos
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