Re: [PySIL] Securing files

2011-02-24 Thread Software-Develop Philippines
Greetings, > The problem isn't so much the database itself, > as I can think of a number of way to encrypt the data it contains, > but some of the data is simply names of image and video files > contained elsewhere in the file-system. Actually, this is something like I had to think through with a

Re: Re: Securing files

2011-02-23 Thread Dr Vangel
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Timothy W. Grove wrote: Hello Folks, In a python application that I'm developing I've been asked to add security to databases that the program might create and access; the database is to be password protected by its creator. The application uses an SQLite

Re: Securing files

2011-02-23 Thread entliczek
Can't you just create a new user and a special group for him and limit access privileges to that precise folder only to that user/group? That way only "the mysterious application" would be able to access them. It's perfect and very simple solution. Storing especially video files (that are usua

Re: Securing files

2011-02-23 Thread Roy Smith
In article , "Timothy W. Grove" wrote: > The problem isn't so much the database itself, as I can think of a > number of way to encrypt the data it contains, but some of the data is > simply names of image and video files contained elsewhere in the > file-system. Is there anyway to prevent a u

Re: Securing files

2011-02-23 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Timothy W. Grove wrote: > Hello Folks, > > In a python application that I'm developing I've been asked to add security > to databases that the program might create and access; the database is to be > password protected by its creator. The application uses an SQLit

Securing files

2011-02-23 Thread Timothy W. Grove
Hello Folks, In a python application that I'm developing I've been asked to add security to databases that the program might create and access; the database is to be password protected by its creator. The application uses an SQLite database, which could be changed for another back-end if that