Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-04 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Pierre, Pierre Sahores-2 wrote ;D in response to J. Landman Gay who wrote: Of course. That goes without saying. But given how long it took the guys who wrote it to reverse their own files, I trust it. That is an interesting cliffhanger ending for this thread! But, What is your

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-04 Thread stephen barncard
As safe as the encryption employed. We have several choices in Livecode. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Pierre, Pierre Sahores-2 wrote ;D in response to J. Landman Gay who wrote: Of course. That goes without saying. But given how

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/4/12 4:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: But, What is your personal conclusion about the methods proposed to protect stacks? Safe or Not? I think it depends on how paranoid you need to be. If we disregard determined hackers who have infinite amounts of time, then I think it is possible

RE: Protecting stacks

2012-11-03 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Mark wrote : and even if it is part of a standalone it isn't too difficult to detach the stack and save it as a stackfile again. Mark, That intrigued me ! Could you clarify that statement a little, or point me to a link which will explain how to do this. Best

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-03 Thread Thierry Douez
2012/11/3 Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Mark wrote : and even if it is part of a standalone it isn't too difficult to detach the stack and save it as a stackfile again. Mark, That intrigued me ! Could you clarify that statement a little, or point me

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Francis, If you have a need for this, perhaps it is better that you contact me off-list. -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Download Color Converter at http://www.color-converter.com Op 3-nov-2012, om 12:48 heeft Francis Nugent Dixon het

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/3/12 6:48 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Mark wrote : and even if it is part of a standalone it isn't too difficult to detach the stack and save it as a stackfile again. Mark, That intrigued me ! Could you clarify that statement a little, or point me to a

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/2/12 9:44 PM, stephen barncard wrote: actually I think the dynamic thing was my suggestion Oops, sorry. Credit where credit is due. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Jacque, I think that no longer possible is just a little too strong. Hackers will always find a way, if they really want to. (No, I don't consider myself a hacker). -- Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Download Color Converter at

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/3/12 4:10 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Jacque, I think that no longer possible is just a little too strong. Hackers will always find a way, if they really want to. (No, I don't consider myself a hacker). Of course. That goes without saying. But given how long it took the guys who wrote

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-03 Thread Pierre Sahores
;D Le 3 nov. 2012 à 23:20, J. Landman Gay a écrit : On 11/3/12 4:10 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Jacque, I think that no longer possible is just a little too strong. Hackers will always find a way, if they really want to. (No, I don't consider myself a hacker). Of course. That goes

Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Hi all, I'm needing to protect both the scripts and the text in fields for a project that is essentially a book--many pages with text. The author of the book is, well very concerned about piracy. I see that in the Standalone Application Settings I can protect scripts of stack files in the

RE: Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread Ralph DiMola
LiveCode Subject: Protecting stacks Hi all, I'm needing to protect both the scripts and the text in fields for a project that is essentially a book--many pages with text. The author of the book is, well very concerned about piracy. I see that in the Standalone Application Settings I

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread stephen barncard
you could encrypt the text, store in custom properties, convert to an array, and decrypt and display into a locked field on card open. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: Hi all, I'm needing to protect both the scripts and the text in fields for a

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Thanks Stephan and Ralph! On Nov 02, 2012, at 04:55 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: you could encrypt the text, store in custom properties, convert to an array, and decrypt and display into a locked field on card open. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Peter

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Peter, You can protect stacks with a password, as Ralph suggested. Basically you can't prevent anyone from opening your stack in the IDE and copying all the text, if your stack isn't part of a standalone, and even if it is part of a standalone it isn't too difficult to detach the stack and

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Thanks Mark. I will mull over this... On Nov 02, 2012, at 05:19 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Peter, You can protect stacks with a password, as Ralph suggested. Basically you can't prevent anyone from opening your stack in the IDE and copying all the text,

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/2/12 7:19 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Peter, You can protect stacks with a password, as Ralph suggested. Basically you can't prevent anyone from opening your stack in the IDE and copying all the text, if your stack isn't part of a standalone, and even if it is part of a standalone it

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/2/12 6:49 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: I see that in the Standalone Application Settings I can protect scripts of stack files in the application. However, I have stack files that are NOT in the application--the app just serves to launch files. How do I protect the scripts in those files?

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-02 Thread stephen barncard
actually I think the dynamic thing was my suggestion, I think but no matter. Based on conversations on this list, the biggest reason for that choice was to not have the hassle to deal with passwords during development and the possibility of losing everything. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM, J.