Re: On API keys...

2022-06-24 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
This is a great best-practice explanation. Perhaps someone can turn it into a blog post and put it on the site. Thanks again On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 6:24 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Mr. (Or should I say Doctor) Waddingham! This is a really

Re: On API keys...

2022-06-24 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Mr. (Or should I say Doctor) Waddingham! This is a really brilliant essay on the risk, benefits and rewards in multiple scenarios concerning the storage of keys. I’ve mentioned before that I came up with the idea of “poisoning” the encrypted data before the data was transmitted. If intercepted

Re: On API keys...

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 6/24/22 10:04, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: The only way to use these keys is from server scripts running on a server which you do your best to maintain the security of. Ideally these keys should be stored in files which are only readable by specific users - usually the

Re: On API keys...

2022-06-24 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Mark, thanks for taking the time to give this in-depth answer. This will come in handy for others as well I am sure. Have a great weekend. Tom On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 1:04 PM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > So this is mainly aimed at Tom Glod due to

On API keys...

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
So this is mainly aimed at Tom Glod due to a question he asked in this afternoon's Feature Focus session which I perhaps did not answer particularly well (and given that it is security related, I figured I should expand on what I said). The question was whether putting an API Key as a

Re: {OT} Are there any ffmpeg "experts" on this list?

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-24 17:05, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I was unaware of the mediaFoundation library - I had thought that we'd not see support under LiveCode 10 switches from DirectShow to MediaFoundation. Its actually been buried in the product (business/pro features) for a long time - I

Re: {OT} Are there any ffmpeg "experts" on this list?

2022-06-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Panos, Thank you! I was unaware of the mediaFoundation library - I had thought that we'd not see support under LiveCode 10 switches from DirectShow to MediaFoundation. That said, our application is macOS and Windows and the appeal of ffmpeg via shell is that the same code will work across

Re: {OT} Are there any ffmpeg "experts" on this list?

2022-06-24 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
In one of my projects i do use ffmpeg for some audio conversion and id3 tag handling. For me the tool ff-Works (https://ffworks.net) helped me a lot. Normally its a GUI for ffmpeg, but the good thing is the user is also able to see the command line that was used for a task. So in case no

Re: {OT} Are there any ffmpeg "experts" on this list?

2022-06-24 Thread panagiotis m via use-livecode
Hello Paul Not a ffmpeg expert, but have you seen the mediaFoundation library? See the dictionary entry for "mediaFoundationTranscode" - it has a detailed example for concatenating 2 media files. Hope this helps Kind regards, Panos -- On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 18:08, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode

{OT} Are there any ffmpeg "experts" on this list?

2022-06-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I am doing some work with Livecode script constructing calls (via shell()) to ffmpeg to perform some video/audio concatenation. I have barely learned a tiny bit of ffmpeg and and wondering if there are any people proficient with ffmpeg wh might be interesting in a small bit of paid consulting