Thanks for all the responses, help and suggestions.
I have done it with encoding/decoding and I have used file.locked to save the
file in a locked state so that its contents cannot be altered unless unlocked,
and hopefully the file cannot become corrupted, again unless if unlocked.
I have not made the file invisible because it will need to be visible to open
under normal circumstances.
Thanks in advance William for your snippet to use XOR, I will definitely use it
to improve security.
Thanks again all.
Lennox
William Squires <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just keep in mind that encoding
(rather than encrypting) a file is
just to keep honest people honest - a hacker (or someone determined
to crack your high score file...) will get in in a flash. If you
determine that an encoding (rather than encryption) is acceptable, at
least don't use a simple substitution cypher; use XOR (BitwiseXOR)
with a rotating key to make it more difficult. An example of a
symmetric encoding function (in this context, a "symmetric" function
is one that's its own inverse) is:
Function EncodeDecode(s As String) As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim l As Integer
Dim theCh As String
Dim result As String
result = "" // so I'm retentive about initializing variables,
okay? :)
l = LenB(s)
For i = 1 To l
theCh = MidB(s, i, 1)
result = result + ChrB(BitwiseXOR(AscB(theCh), (128 +
constant> * i) Mod 256))
Next
Return result
End Function
On Apr 14, 2007, at 7:11 PM, Christian Schmitz wrote:
> Lennox Jacob wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My app save its files as text documents.
>>
>> Is it possible for me to scramble the text on saving (and
>> descramble on
>> opening) so that it is not easily read if opened by any text
>> editor app?
>>
>
> Sure.
> Can be as easy as walking over all ascii characters in a string and
> adding 20 to the values. Simple, but often enough.
>
> Gruß
> Christian
>
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