At 14:47 +0000 03/04/2002, Peter King wrote:
>A hacker can get into your global variables? Maybe I should encrypt them too!
Well, they (crackers, *not* hackers) can get to your vars if you
leave them an open channel. Shockwave files can theoretically be
opened in this way with a message window, but a standalone
projector's pretty tight security wise. In fact an 8.5+ projector
can't even have a message window forced on it with an ini file.
I've got some discussion on this very topic (enciphering) online
under free --> noise filter. While the shockfiles there are actually
interested more in steganography than anything else, early versions
do have included xOr encrption of text, which should be quite
adequate unless you are running a contest of some kind. It's all open
source.
If you *are* running a contest, you will want to keep your data
online instead of local (where it could be attacked) and you will
want to use behaviors rather than regular 'global' scripts.
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