making an encryption, decryption key in max
Hello
I write a journal in apple textedit, and I was hoping to create a simple homemade encryption/decryption key for it using max.
It’s not terribly sensitive, I don’t need military grade encryption but I thought it would fun to play with.
Ideally I’d like to make a patch that takes my .rtf file, scrambles it, saves it as an unopenable corrupted file, then imports it, and puts the data back in the right place.
I see that I can use the filein object to read my rtf file as binary data. Is there any way I could re export that binary data and change the file extension to rtf to have a readable rtf file thats identical to my original? If this were possible, I could scramble and unscramble the binary data to do my encryption
I’ve tried putting the binary data into a very long itable then saving from that, but that doesnt seem to work
thanks very much!
I think this came from the tutorials originally… can’t remember. Hope this is helpful.
thats what exactly what I’d like to end up with, but I’d like for it to preserve all my rich text features like underlines and bolded tex