Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:50 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
>
>> Hi, so CxnEditor creates a XML file. Now you have in an ASCII file
>> your
>> sensitive information (user, password - of course it will be a user
>> with
>> append/update/delete rights) for anyone to see. My question is, how
>> would you manage the database security?
>
>       First off, the Password is stored in an obscured format. If your
> password was the word 'password', it would be stored in the XML as
> something like 'V14IA4U54DAEG76V6EG1CX35'. This will stop casual
> glances from revealing much.
>
 
Cool. Thanks.
 
>       However, anyone with a copy of Dabo will be able to extract the
> original from that, since the tools are all available to everyone.
> Therefore, we strongly suggest that you change your app's Crypto
> property to your own class; as long as that class has an encrypt()
> and a decrypt() method, the app will use that instead of the default
> SimpleCrypt that ships with Dabo.
>
 
Noted.