Hi Dillon, For the sake of clarity, I started programming 15 years ago. It’s cryptography that I’m new to. Same as American Football – didn’t get to it yet :)
Anyways, yes – I rebuilt everything according to compiler version and flavor. I even name my libs this way (for example: cryptopp552.debug.msvc60.lib) so I know exactly what I’m linking up against. Regarding my client, it’s just a small util I developed in my own free time. The audience loves it and I enjoy maintaining it. I got to a stage where I need it to be more secure, so I’m taking the opportunity here to expand my horizons into cryptography. So, it goes like this: I have an offline tool that builds a database on a nightly basis (the size is around 1Mb). I want to add a final encryption phase to this nightly build. I have an .exe client (let’s call it client.exe) that checks for updates and downloads the database from our intranet upon need. Currently I have the full database, more of less, sitting as clear text on the client machine’s harddisk. I want to change my strategy, place just a minimal subset of the database on the harddisk for working offline (e.g. laptops), and if client.exe detects that it is connected to the intranet, I plan to download the full database file into memory (without saving it). (*) Please correct me if I’m wrong here: I believe I will need to embed the private key into client.exe as well as the decryption function. Just to be clear, both versions of the databases will be encrypted in the same manner so it doesn’t matter which version I load, it will be decrypted the same way. Practically, I wish to tighten up the security of the database(s) and make sure that no readable version of the file will exist. (*) Once decrypted, the database will be stored in memory as clear text data… Dillon, thanks for your time and effort – I really appreciate it. I’ll look around for “Wei’s Instructions” on how to build the library because so far it has not been a pleasant experience. Good luck with the Super Bowl! Avi. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Crypto++ Users" Google Group. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]. More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at http://www.cryptopp.com. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
