Lukasz Sokol wrote:
On 13/07/16 08:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Please excuse one of my regular silly questions. Elsewhere, a (former) Delphi programmer
is uneasy having found that his binaries have had embedded SQL
Tony Whyman wrote:
What's interested me is how this thread has almost looped back to a
recent thread on that steaming heap of brown stuff know as GTK and the
attitude of the programmers behind it.
It wasn't intentional :-)
They make the point here that GTK is (too) complex and
difficult to
What's interested me is how this thread has almost looped back to a
recent thread on that steaming heap of brown stuff know as GTK and the
attitude of the programmers behind it.
I had a similar problem a few years ago whiich I wanted to solve by
putting the passwords in an external file and
Dennis Poon wrote:
On the subject, can the OP simply use UPX to encrypt the executable
binary. It won't be secured but no more unsecured than other simple
solutions.
I'm the nominal OP, but I raised the question in response to what an
(ex-) Delphi programmer was asking elsewhere about
El 12/07/2016 a las 21:39, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió:
> No, but why the hell would you want to hard-code a password inside an
> executable. Encrypt it externally and read it from a .INI file at
> runtime (or prompt for a password). Even something as simple as
> XorString() is better than nothing
On 2016-07-13 09:54, Dennis Poon wrote:
> May I know what OnGuard is?
It was originally TurboPower OnGuard, but then released as open source
software. It allows you to license your software in many different ways.
eg: x amount of days trial, lease your software for a year at a time, x
amount of
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2016-07-13 08:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Sometimes it's difficult to avoid having to do that sort of thing, or
obfuscating them in an external file.
You could use something like DCPCrypt to help the cause. Or you could
follow similar tactics to what OnGuard uses
Lukasz Sokol wrote:
On 13/07/16 08:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Please excuse one of my regular silly questions. Elsewhere, a (former) Delphi programmer
is uneasy having found that his binaries have had embedded SQL
On 2016-07-13 08:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Sometimes it's difficult to avoid having to do that sort of thing, or
> obfuscating them in an external file.
You could use something like DCPCrypt to help the cause. Or you could
follow similar tactics to what OnGuard uses - encode sensitive text
On 2016-07-13 08:28, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> In that case "No, but why the hell would *one* want to hard-code a
> password [...] storing it inside *one's* source code."
The English language is perplexing (ie: “clear as dishwater”). There are
a 1001 rules and exceptions to the rules. Both our
On 13/07/16 08:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>> Please excuse one of my regular silly questions. Elsewhere, a (former)
>>> Delphi programmer is uneasy having found that his binaries have had
>>> embedded SQL
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Please excuse one of my regular silly questions. Elsewhere, a (former)
Delphi programmer is uneasy having found that his binaries have had
embedded SQL queries, passwords and so on visible "in clear" for the
last 20
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2016-07-12 21:09, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> I didn't say /I/ was the one
doing it.
I know and I wasn’t implying you. It’s a figure of speech.
In that case "No, but why the hell would *one* want to hard-code a
password [...] storing it inside *one's* source code."
On 2016-07-12 21:09, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> I didn't say /I/ was the one doing it.
I know and I wasn’t implying you. It’s a figure of speech.
Regards,
Graeme
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Please excuse one of my regular silly questions. Elsewhere, a (former) Delphi
programmer is uneasy having found that his binaries have had embedded SQL
queries, passwords and so on visible "in clear" for the last 20 years or so.
Can FPC be told
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2016-07-12 20:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Can FPC be told to obfuscate ResourceStrings?
No, but why the hell would you want to hard-code a password inside an
executable. Encrypt it externally and read it from a .INI file at
runtime (or prompt for a password). Even
On 2016-07-12 20:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Can FPC be told to obfuscate ResourceStrings?
No, but why the hell would you want to hard-code a password inside an
executable. Encrypt it externally and read it from a .INI file at
runtime (or prompt for a password). Even something as simple as
Please excuse one of my regular silly questions. Elsewhere, a (former)
Delphi programmer is uneasy having found that his binaries have had
embedded SQL queries, passwords and so on visible "in clear" for the
last 20 years or so.
Can FPC be told to obfuscate ResourceStrings?
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