Would something like Northcodes SWF studio be very secure - I jsut found out that (from their overview page) ...
**** Protect Your Work: Are you worried about people extracting the files you bundle with your applications? File resources you bundle with your application can be encrypted using unbreakable 448-bit blowfish encryption. When combined with V3's secure loader your files will finally be protected from prying eyes. **** That means I can have external swf, flv's etc. and they will be encrypted using blowfsh encryption? That sounds good enough to me at least on a good deterrant level? Or am I being naive? Thanks, Nik On 4/16/07, Blumenthal, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks all for your responses (and apologies for my tardy reply!) Roy - that's a really interesting idea. I have a couple of follow up questions though please. Were you then loading those SWFs into Director, rather than using a loadMovie to load them into Flash? I assume so, because although I could use the BinaryIO xtra to rewrite the files to disc, then load them into Flash, that would of course expose the unmumged files while the application was running. Also, how difficult would it be for someone familiar with the SWF format to identify and strip those junk bits? I am thinking perhaps this *could* be a solution given AS3's binary socket capabilities... Hairy Dog - thanks for the pointer - am still reading through the archives - not really inspiring much confidence though I'm afraid :( Gustavo - no, Flash can't do this unfortunately, and in most cases it's a fairly trivial matter to work around Director's protected external casts too (well, as far as retrieving the assets goes anyway, not the code though). Coincidentally, Brazil is one of our target territories - if you can shed any more light on the level of protection against piracy in south America that would be both useful and interesting... I guess we still need to have some more internal discussions about how secure is secure enough, how much effort to protect is too much effort etc etc. Anyway, thanks for the input all. Pete This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. This email was sent by a company within the corporate group owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, registered in England and Wales with company number 53723 and VAT number GB 278 5371 21. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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