On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
So while it keeps people who don't have Rev from extracting data,
it still leaves data vulnerable to those who do.
Exactly the problem...
Scott wrote:
but I would guess the likelihood of your users owning a copy of
Rev is lower than folks' ability to snoop around file
contents.
true now and confirmed, both custom props and fields are encrypted
contains on disk but our assumption that the possibilities of such
extraction are "low" is based on the less than enthusiastic ontology
that the number of rev developers in the world of manifest being is
small i.e. the statistical chances of theft are low relative to the
number of users using the "product" (or who might try to hack it in
BBedit or whatever...) without the IDE...
but: remember the "Dream World" I proposed initially on this thread
posits a different ontology: Rev becomes very popular and the number
of IDEs in the universe approaches infinity, (excuse the word fun)
suddenly the chances for theft jump....
Isn't there a BZ request for SC-style password protection? In SC
setting the password prevents the stack from being opened in the
IDE. If there isn't already a request for this maybe someone should
post one, with recommendations on what that password property
should be called.
I just put that feature request in...I didn't know SC had this (I
haven't used SC in years) I'm sorry to say I did not exercise due
diligence to determine if said enhancement was already there...
anyway, enhancement 3404 is now there and was assigned to the engine
team. I'm not competent to recommend a password property name. But to
get the ball rolling -- at the risk of using metaphorical terms (but
why not? we use "anchor" in html, "wizard" for a small tool and
"firewall" in net admin, and "Tiger" for and OS)
Would terms related to "lock" work?: (opening my thesaurus....)
adjectives for the state of such a stack: (where the property is true
or false)
Where the propery being true means you cannot open the stack:
"bolted" # like the door to a house
"lockout" # those inside preventing entry to those outside
"sealed"
"cryptic"
"taboo"
"kapu" (taboo in Hawaiian)
Prosaic:
"secure" # as in an SSL transaction: completely opaque and unextractable
"closed" # as in a meeting in a room with the door shut
"restricted"
"blocked"
Nouns for a stack in such a state:
crypt
vault
strongbox
Where the property being true is the default and if set to false,
means you cannot open the stack
"penetrable"
"reveal"
"accessible"
Sivakatirswami
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