Re: Encrypting Binary Strings
Re: Encrypting Binary Strings
- Subject: Re: Encrypting Binary Strings
- From: "Mr. Gecko" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:59:00 -0600
Ok, I'll look up the different encodings I could do with openssl, Thanks for the suggestion.
This is basically for Parental Controls, I know I could ask for a password at first, but then any kid could grab a copy and set their own password. What I'm doing is I'm asking for them to authenticate with Mac OS X, and then once they are authenticated, I'm allowing them to set settings that are encrypted with a key in AES.
On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote:
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> On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Mr. Gecko wrote:
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>> Is it possible for me to encrypt the strings in my binary so hackers can't easily figure out what my application has in it? Reason I'm asking is I have some private keys that encodes data that I/parents don't want kids or teenagers to find.
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> Have you tried the OpenSSL crypto library? Maybe you could could encrypt your data, and then use an algorithm to put together the key at runtime. It isn't super secure, but he will prevent the data from sitting there on the disk in plaintext.
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> Another thing to look at is DRM techniques. They need to solve a similar problem.
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> Todd
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