creating a password orientated app

rob beattie's icon

creating a password orientated app

a question of help for those that might know. is it possible to create a password orientated application, ie, the application would show contents after, a password is typed.

hope someone can help me out. regards - rob

ShelLuser's icon

I don't see why this couldn't work, Max can process text snippets and also do comparisons, so that should work.

Of course the major obstacle here are the passwords themselves. You definitely don't want to work with actual values but instead rely on hash sequences. From what I can tell you're probably going to need some externals for that to make this work.

Hope this can give you some ideas.

rob beattie's icon

ok, thanks, thanks for your reply. regards

Source Audio's icon

password itself is irrelevant,

what matters is how you organise the flow.

If you make 256 bit hash-bash-trash password that no one can hack,

what good is it if entering pass -> match -> show contents is

easily bypassed by editing mxf file ?

rob beattie's icon

hi sourceaudio, hope all is well, the application will be standalone, and can a user still access mxf, learning stage on this, and wondered if it was possible, thanks for the reply - rb.

Source Audio's icon

without putting money into some external copy protection software,

only way I know of (that is more or less secure) is

existing only on windows, using free exe packer enigmavb,

which embeds all standalone items

into single executable app and decompresses it at runtime into memory.

that way mxf file is hidden from users.

I guess even if such thing existed on Mac,

one would get into trouble with security of latest MacOS.

what you can do is mask the whole password procedure in a way

that at least makes it a bit difficult to find and modify.

rob beattie's icon

OK, CHEERS, MANY THANKS