My thoughts exactly....am planning to increase security checking if the dcr
is playing from a particular url...if not I will delete the contents of the
castlib.need to figure out how best this can be implemented though.

Thanks and Regards,
Anand Ravi


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From: "Daniel Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> dcr security


> There is a forthcoming Encryption Xtra from SmartPants Media that I highly
recommend.
>
> Unfortunately, it sounds like you want to protect content from being
stolen by the user from within an app that displays that content to the
user.  I believe there is no way you will ever achieve this.  If the player
app can display the content, then the user viewing the content
> has access to the decryption scheme...that will always be a security hole.
>
> Data can only be secured en route to its intended audience.  If you can
give the audience a public key, then you can prevent others from
intercepting it, but you won't be able to stop them from stealing that data.
You can make it difficult to access, but if the data were desirable
> enough, it could be accessed without brute force.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
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