Re: Text file encryption
Re: Text file encryption
- Subject: Re: Text file encryption
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 19:07:20 +0200
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Does anyone know of a good secure Cocoa method of encrypting text files?
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I'd like my app to be able to encrypt/decrypt collections of rtf files.
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At the moment I'm using a pretty rudimentary approach (which isn't
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encryption at all really), in which I take my collections of attributed
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strings and archive them as data objects. These are then put in a
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dictionary which is saved into a plist file. Good enough to thwart your
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average Joe User, but wouldn't fool anyone with any serious technical
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know-how longer than about ten seconds.
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I'd like a *proper* encryption method which would bar any attempt (short
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of cracking the reader app) to copy encrypted resource files out of the
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app bundle and read them. What I'm after, ideally, is a roll-my-ownable
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C or obj-C technique which I can write into my application rather than a
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piece of proprietary encryption software. Any advice?
The services of OpenSSL <
http://www.openssl.org/> are available to you.
/ Regards, David Remahl
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