Hi,
What if your app is KILLED by task amager?
Then the decrypted DBfile could stay there, since there's no time for
whipe-delete.
Or ???
Another fatal situation can be a power outage while running your app.
After power comes back, windows boots, user logs on, then starts your app
again...
What does it then, when does not find the encrypted DB - since it was
whipe-deleted
upon the previous start?
By(t)e
K.L.
-----Original Message-----
I wrote a wrapper for the dB File that would encrypt the entire
file, storing it in a secure directory that can only be accessed by the
currently logged on username, and wipe deleted the original. This was made
a part of the application and occurred upon the closing of the datamodule
itself. Then, when the app was started again, the wrapper would decrypt the
dB File, And move it back into the user's working directory, wipe-deleting
the encrypted version at the same time. Then when the datamodule is
created, the file is there ready to be found! The Application also uses
this wrapper as part of its Archiving procedure, making sure any archived
copies of the dB file are first encrypted before being copied to the user's
Archive directory. That way, Archives themselves can only be opened by the
application again.
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