Re: Obscuring an NSString
Re: Obscuring an NSString
- Subject: Re: Obscuring an NSString
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:54:28 -0800
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Adam Gerson <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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?
No. You need to go through NSData first.
--Kyle Sluder
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