>We are trying to share the same data and documents from a standalone exe that could be distributed on a CD , while at the same time they are accessed through a VFox5 DCOM/Intranet configuration.
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>All is well except for security. We have secure pdf documents on a CD/Server that will only be decrypted through the software once a password has been entered. As the layout of the documents are identical for the the intranet - we have a problem.
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>How can I secure the documents in a way that they culd be decrypted/accessed from a CD in a similar way as through a DCOM?
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>Am I going about this the right way??
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>Any help/ideas would be most welcome
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>Jason

How are you encrypting/decrypting them? If it is happening live in the software, all you need to do is decrypt to a string and then write that string to a file in the temp directory.