Winterlight wrote:
At 11:45 AM 4/21/2005, you wrote:
How about keep the batch file zipped up in an encrypted zip file.
How would it run from scheduler inside a zip file?
There is really no way that I can think of to hide a key from a batch file
unless the batch file runs a program that can decrypt an encrypted key and
can then call WinZip with the information.
If you compile the script into a encrypted exe it would be protected. I can do that but I don't trust the program I am currently using to produce exe's that can't be de compiled.
If this is on an NTFS partition, you might could make the file hidden and give rights to only yourself for read/write/etc.
Then anybody who is logged in as me or administrator could see it. Windows passwords are easy to hack
Not so with EFS in play. If you encrypt a folder with EFS, even a password hack is no going give access if you do EFS the right way.
This also solves the unknown quanity of having to install software on another system since it's built-in to windows 2000 & up, all you need is to import the EFS key from a backups floppy or usb drive to access the data. At the very least you could protect your batch file in a EFS folder this way and continue do whatever process you use now with it,
I handle backing stuff encrypted on my laptop with Drivecrpt to my server share at home this way.
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsecure/html/WinNETSrvr-EncryptedFileSystem.asp http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290260 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255742/EN-US/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223316/EN-US/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241201/EN-US/
