On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:58 , Leo <le...@rogers.com> wrote: > As I recently learned, plain strings are stored "as is" in the executable and > can be discovered - if opening it in a text editor, for example. > > That is, if I have a string @"myString" inside the code, it can be read in > plain text inside the executable. > > I have a couple of string I don't want to be discovered (related to demo > period handling). > > Is there an easy way to store them in an encoded way? > > I tried to define them as C strings (const char) but it doesn't make a > difference. > > > So far I just break them into characters in AppleScript Editor, add @ in > front of each with find-replace, and then store them as an array which > receives the -componentsJoinedByString: method. > > Is there an easier way?
There's no truly secure way to do this. About the best you can do is encrypt the strings, but people can crack it if they want to badly enough. Depending on how much effort you want them to go through, you can do any number of things to encrypt, from simple to complex. You might also consider requiring a connection to a server to see if you should run. But given enough interest, you will get p0wned eventually. -- Rick _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
