Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

2011-09-16 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:53:50PM -0400, John Patterson wrote: I'd say that encryption is the answer here - hang the security on the key rather than the code. I think that this is not the case depicted by Giovanni; if I understand well he wants to prevent the letitimate user (which

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

2011-09-16 Thread Martin Dobias
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:53 AM, John Patterson j...@henrygis.com wrote: I'd say that encryption is the answer here - hang the security on the key rather than the code. If the requirement is explicitly should be only visible and usable through the customized qgis and not by any other tool.,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

2011-09-16 Thread G. Allegri
Thanks for the brainstorming. I will bring the various usefull considerations to my collegues. I'll let you know about the policies that will be chosen, and consequently the road to achieve them. giovanni 2011/9/16 Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:53 AM, John

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

2011-09-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentob...@sourcepole.ch wrote: Hi Giovanni  The simplest solution might be to encrypt the data and send the key to your clients. Simplest, but if you send the key in plaintext then you might as well send the data in plaintext -

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

2011-09-16 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: I've been asked to create a custom qgis, to be distributed via CD/DVD along with some data (vector and raster) that should be only visible and usable thorugh the customized qgis and not by any other tool. Has somebody in

Re: [Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

2011-09-16 Thread John Patterson
That's a great point - I was envisioning a scenario in which end users are to be (mostly) trusted not to take efforts to re-distribute the data. John On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Niccolo Rigacci nicc...@rigacci.orgwrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:53:50PM -0400, John Patterson wrote:

[Qgis-developer] Feature: Auto saving for layers

2011-09-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi All, Last night I thought it might be cool to try and implement auto saving for layers that are in edit mode in QGIS. There was a request [1] opened up a while ago and while a plugin could have been made to fill the hole I think that this kind of stuff is nice to have built in. So I had a go