Interesting idea.

I agree that it's not foolproof. I couldn't use it for a widely distributed app. But maybe something along these lines for isolated corporate stuff.

Guy



>One idea, although not 100% failsafe...
>
>Try storing the key value encoded. The encoded key will look much more like the rest of the hex stored in the exe, if viewed in a text editor. This ~could~ be reverse-engineered, but the hack would have to know your setup, figure out the encoding used, get your encryption api, AND find and decode your key in the compiled code. Not likely
>
>*- choose a key, and do following in command window
>lcKey = "your key here"
>_cliptext = STRCONV(lcKey,13)
>
>*- in some header file
>#DEFINE C_KEY "ctrl+V" && (paste in your encoded key)
>
>*- function to decrypt a value
>FUNCTION mydecrypt
> LPARAMETERS tcValue
> RETURN decrypt(tcValue,STRCONV(C_KEY,14)) && cipher50.fll
>ENDFUNC
>
>*- function to encrypt value
>FUNCTION myencrypt
> LPARAMETERS tcValue
> RETURN encrypt(tcValue,STRCONV(C_KEY,14)) && cipher50.fll
>ENDFUNC
>
>-> Seth