ah, I see, hmmm, I was wanting a application that was a digital photo viewer that had an encryption ability in it, and this would bee good for that, eh?
thanks for the clarification, inthane proprietor, The Grab Bag, for blind computer users and programmers http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises "own the might and majesty of a Alacorn!" www.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Agemtree "merchants in fine facetted and cabochon gemstones" www.agemtree.comoperator: Fruit Basket Demo Sight, where you can find a similar project done in several programming languages, along with its source code, so you can decide what language is right for you
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Good questions, Inthane. I hope the improved documentation clarified things a bit. This is not intended to be a comprehensive encryption tool, but a free one that enables certain techniques built into the Windows API. If a computer crashed, a file encrypted in this way would not be readable on another computer, so it is not good for backup purposes. Primarily, I envision it as being useful as a component that developers can use when encrypting sensitive data within an application. Although I made the documentation generic, I also hope it will be useful as an example of writing a simple console mode program in VBNET. If there is enough interest I could add a GUI later (or since it is open source, someone else could contribute that). Someone informed me that choosing an encryption property for a file from the context menu in Windows Explorer can do a similar thing. I was not aware of this before, but that may be a GUI way of doing something like this. Cheers, Jamal On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, InthaneElf wrote:Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:01:49 -0700 From: InthaneElf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Announcing Stash ok Jamal,sounds good for some folks, I have two questions though, one if you "stash" things, and your comp goes down, how does one unstash there backup files on the repaired/replaced computer? and my second note is why no GUI? I myself can't stand using command line stuff and avoid it at any chance I can, youcan't do completely without, not if your going to utilize all the functionality of a computer, but when I can, I do, up to and includingpaying for programs that have a free command line interface counterpart, orsearching until I can find a GUI one, even if it doesn't have some of the functionality of its command line equivalent. regards, inthane proprietor, The Grab Bag, for blind computer users and programmers http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises "own the might and majesty of a Alacorn!" www.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Agemtree "merchants in fine facetted and cabochon gemstones" www.agemtree.comoperator: Fruit Basket Demo Sight, where you can find a similar project donein several programming languages, along with its source code, so you can decide what language is right for you http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 6:29 AM Subject: Announcing Stash > Now available at > http://EmpowermentZone.com/stash.zip > > Stash > Version 1.0 > October 8, 2008 > Copyright 2008 by Jamal Mazrui > LGPL license >> Stash is a set of console-mode, command-line utilities for encrypting > and > decrypting text. Requiring the .NET Framework 2.0 (or above), the > three > utilities are sh.exe, Stash.exe, and Unstash.exe. They work as > follows.> > sh Text> where Text is a sequence of characters to encrypt, e.g., a password. > If > it contains one or more space characters, then surrounding quotes > should> be used. The result is a file called sh (no extension) in the current > directory. This file encrypts the text in such a way that it is> considered secure from being read on any computer besides the one on > which> it was created. > > If sh.exe is run without a command-line parameter, it looks for a file > called sh in the current directory, decrypts it, and sends the text to > standard output. This output would be visible in a console window. > Alternatively, another program may run the utility and capture its > standard output. > > The other utilities provide more flexibility and work as a pair. > > Stash SourceFile TargetFile > > or > > Unstash SourceFile TargetFile >> Stash.exe encryptes text contained in SourceFile, creating TargetFile > as> the result. Unstash.exe does the reverse, decrypting SourceFile and > putting its text in TargetFile. If either file name contains a space, > surrounding quotes should be used. >> The Stash utilities are open source, with code in the language of > Visual> Basic 2005. Under the license, derivative works must likewise be open > source. If only the binary executables are being used, however, > redistributing the source code is not necessary. >> Note that information saved by Stash may be read by someone else who > has > access to the same computer and knowledge of the technique. Stash > offers> high protection only when the file is copied to another computer. > > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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