The original requestor wants to hide a MapPoint login/key/something secret in an application so that people can't find it even though they have access to the application's binary(ies).
There is no absolutely secure way of doing this. It all boils down to how hard do you want to make them work to get the key. -- Brent Rector, .NET Wise Owl Demeanor for .NET - an obfuscation utility http://www.wiseowl.com/Products/Products.aspx -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Burton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 7:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Hide part of code from Developers Wouldn't obfuscating data be under the heading of cryptography? -----Original Message----- From: Brad Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Hide part of code from Developers Kevin Hector wrote: > actually, i just read the user guide and can't find any reference to > obfuscating internal data, but at least they have a 'community > edition' which is a free, command-line only code obfuscator I've never seen an obfuscator that obfuscates data, only symbols and code. Brad -- Read my web log at http://www.quality.nu/dotnetguy/ You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
