"... There is no other secured method by which you can allow your customer to view your board" - apart from encrypting any sensitive strings in binary so people cannot decrypt the brd file so easily !!! >>> PETER PIETRANGELO <peter_pietrangelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 17/01/2008 9:47 a.m. >>> Thanks. I did contact them, here is basically what they said; "But the best way to show your data is remote desktop sharing only. There is no other secured method by which you can allow your customer to view your board." Regards, Peter richard moffat <richard.moffat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Peter No immediate solution, but I agree - the protection is useless. A solution to this should be requested to Cadence. Given some time today I will do it myself. Cheers, Richard __________________________ Richard Moffat PCB CAD Team Leader Allied Telesis Labs ph. +64 (3) 3393000 richard.moffat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> "Peter Pietrangelo" 17/01/2008 3:24 a.m. >>> I need to be able to have a customer look at a BRD file without having possession of the file itself. As at least some of you know the password protection in Allegro is useless. My customer wants more than PDF files and I need to protect the data. I want the customer to be able to remotely access the file and be able to at least use the commands of the free viewer. Does anyone already have a solution or any suggestions? Thanks, Peter NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs.