On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:52:01AM -0000, Alastair Scott wrote: > With my usual setup (T675, Plucker 1.2 installed, the PRC files on my Memory > Stick in \Palm\Programs\Plucker and PDADefense 3.0a just installed) Plucker > choked, not being able to "see" the files and generally getting into a > twist.
I just tried to install the Trail version of PDADefense Standard 3.0a and tested it out. I encountered no problems in using plucker with an encrypted memory stick. The only thing I did notice was that documents which were encrypted took much longer to load, but once they were loaded I had no problem reading them. > i. Plucker unable to cope with the Memory Stick being encrypted. It's not > alone as some applications, such as iSilo, have no problems but others, such > as M�tro, do. The current PDADefense VFS encryption is rather crude, being > all files on the Memory Stick or nothing, and I had to remove the encryption > as about 1/3 of my applications weren't working properly with it on! I tried it on the other applications on my T615 and experienced no such problems whatsoever. > ii. Plucker unable to cope with its databases being encrypted. (This is more > likely; PDADefense, by default, encrypts all databases on the internal > memory so the ones Plucker creates on first run are encrypted. There is an > option to turn off the encryption for individual programs). It seems to me that PDADefense acts like a hack in a way by redefining several data-manager calls. This isn't an entirely bad thing to do. From the perspective of the individual programs, the standard API calls they were programmed with are responding properly because PDADefense's version of those calls handle the exact same interface. In theory it should be completly transparent. If I'm right about this, then technically speaking there shouldn't be anything any individual app needs do in order to handle this program. Now, if you have multiple hacks running on the same device, that might end up causing a conflict and might cause some problems. -- Adam McDaniel Array.org Calgary, AB, Canada
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