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#46 Onboard Project Password Protection

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2004-11-01
2004-11-01
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Password Protection for Onboard C Projects.

Protection could be turned on or off for each project so
you can keep secret projects passworded and just small
tester projects not.

Discussion

  • Ken Mankoff

    Ken Mankoff - 2004-11-01

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    I am inclined to vote against this project. One tool for one
    job and all that unixy type stuff. Palm database / PDB
    encrypters already exist (I think) and they should be used
    for this task. Of course, this comes from an emacs user,
    which has been known to contain some amount of bloat...

    Anyway, what exactly should be encrypted? The source code?
    The UI (Rsrc file)? Probably not the .proj file? All of the
    above?

     
  • Cookieteam

    Cookieteam - 2004-11-03

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    I was thinking that just the Source Code Files would be
    Encrypted by SrcEdit if a user turns the option on.

    Then, SrcEdit would ask for a password (probably the palms
    password) to open the file. When Compiling, Onboard ASM
    could check to see if the source file was encrypted and then
    if it was it could ask for the password and compile if true and
    exit if false.

     
  • Nick Guenther

    Nick Guenther - 2005-02-01

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    I agree with mankoff: seems like bloat. However a lesser
    option does seem useful: how about a menu option in OnBoardC
    that sets/unsets the read-only flag of all the files in a
    project? This way you can be reasonably sure your code is
    safe when you aren't working on it.... or would that be a
    false sense of security and bloat at the same time?

     

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