Naive Question #108: Passwording stacks.

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Sat Apr 13 15:06:50 EDT 2013


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.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net





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