RE: Obscuring an NSString (Adam Gerson)
RE: Obscuring an NSString (Adam Gerson)
- Subject: RE: Obscuring an NSString (Adam Gerson)
- From: Kirk Kerekes <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:32:02 -0600
If you convert the NSString into an NSData,(dataUsingEncoding:) and then Base64 encode it into an NSString, doesn't that get you what you want?
> I am writing an NSString to a file and I would like to obscure it in a
> two way reversible fashion. It doesn't have to be major hacker proof,
> just not understandable by an average person. I need to be able to
> read the value back in from the file and convert it back to "clear
> text". In php I would just use base64 encode / decode. All the cocoa
> examples I have found show converting in base64 between nsstring and
> nsdata. Is there a smiple function I can pass an NSString through to
> obscure it while keeping it as a string, then reverse it back to clear
> text in a reliable way?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
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