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Text file encryption


  • Subject: Text file encryption
  • From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:58:07 +0100

Does anyone know of a good secure Cocoa method of encrypting text files? I'd like my app to be able to encrypt/decrypt collections of rtf files. At the moment I'm using a pretty rudimentary approach (which isn't encryption at all really), in which I take my collections of attributed strings and archive them as data objects. These are then put in a dictionary which is saved into a plist file. Good enough to thwart your average Joe User, but wouldn't fool anyone with any serious technical know-how longer than about ten seconds.

I'd like a *proper* encryption method which would bar any attempt (short of cracking the reader app) to copy encrypted resource files out of the app bundle and read them. What I'm after, ideally, is a roll-my-ownable C or obj-C technique which I can write into my application rather than a piece of proprietary encryption software. Any advice?
-Jeremy

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