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Cryptor usage
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06/05/2005 09:58:34
 
 
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05/05/2005 21:10:54
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Third party products
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01011483
Message ID:
01011588
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15
>Just looking for some advice on using cryptor. I will use a simplifed example,
>
>If I have a single table that I want to encrypt that can be in multiple subdirectories how do I go about this? I am a bit confused about the pathing to the file to used when encoding and registering the table through cryptor.
>
>Lets say I have a datbase structure like:
>ROOT
> - DATA1
> - DATA2
>
>Where each data folder has a copy of TABLE1 which I want to encrypt. Obviously I need to initially encode each file separately i.e.
>
>CRYPT_ENCODE("DATA1\TABLE1", "password")
>CRYPT_ENCODE("DATA2\TABLE1", "password")
>
>The first question is does the path specified above need to be an absolute path, can it be relative, relative to the EXE etc?
>
>Second question is regarding the registration, will:
>
>CRYPT_REGISTER("TABLE1", "password") be sufficient for both files, or does each file need to be registered separately and do they require the exact same path as the ENCODE operation?
>
>Thoughts?

I use CRYPT_REGISTER("TABLE1", "password") in order to access similar files in any directory. BTW, I don't encrypt index files for performace.
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