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Re: How encrypt a serialized file?

1-Oct-05 21:17

Hi,

don't serilize it directly to a file. First serialize it into a MemoryStream. Then put that one into a CryptoStrem (this article should give you the basic idea on how to use it). The output of that one can then finally be written to a file (FileStream class).
If you use the cryptographic classes correctly it will be very hard to nearly impossible for someone else to decrypt it.

Sasuko1-Oct-05 23:37

Sasuko

1-Oct-05 23:37

Hi, tnx for your advise, but just one consideration:
if i use these lines in my code
cryptic.Key = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(“ABCDEFGH”);
cryptic.IV = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(“ABCDEFGH”);

it can be get in back by hackers opening my application in assembly code or just if it crash for whatever cause.
Isn't it?
My trouble is can someone got these keys? so use to decrypt manually the stream?

Re: How encrypt a serialized file?

Johnny ²2-Oct-05 12:34

Johnny ²

2-Oct-05 12:34

This is the problem facing everyone, and there is no way around it. There are numerous ways to make it harder for someone to get the keys, but ultimatley if you want to encode and decode from within your program then you will be susceptible to the problems you mentioned.

However, if the user is entering the key/password then it's a different matter entirely, and you can make it very secure.

I'M SO CONFUSED???

Member 23224411-Oct-05 11:48

Member 2322441

1-Oct-05 11:48

I'M TRYING TO BUILD A WEBSITE WITH A DOWNLOAD PAGE.
BUT THE PROBLEM IS; I NEED TO CREATE A CODE FOR THE LINK, ONCE THE CUSTOMER PURCHASES THE PRODUCT AND PAYMENT IS COMFIRMED THEY THEN GO TO THE DOWNLOAD PAGE.
BUT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW TO BUILD THAT CODED DOWNLOAD PAGE LINK, I'M WAY OVER MY HEAD ON THIS ONE.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME BUILD THAT CODED DOWNLOAD LINK? I'M SO CONFUSED.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS CODE WRITTING STUFF,
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME AND I NEED A LOT OF HELP.
PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP ME? PLEASE.
IT'S SO HARD I DON'T UNDERSTAND...

????

Re: I'M SO CONFUSED???

Christian Graus1-Oct-05 19:42

Christian Graus

1-Oct-05 19:42

STOP SHOUTING

dontunderstand wrote:
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS CODE WRITTING STUFF,
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME AND I NEED A LOT OF HELP.

I'm sorry so many people voted without giving you advice. My advice, you shouldn't do anything that will be seen in the real world for your first project. You should take the time to learn some stuff first.

A really simple way to do this is with a response.redirect statement in your page when payment is confirmed, which goes to either the zip ( which will start a download ), or the page with the zip ( which you can hide from google, but which someone will hand out, or discover, eventually. You should password protect your zip and send the password as another line of defence and a way to get your clients email addresses ( don't sell them or spam them, but do use them to send info on updates, etc. )

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Want to cycle through a pen Array

Anonymous1-Oct-05 9:16

1-Oct-05 9:16

Suppose I have this:

public Pen[] activePen = new Pen[] { new Pen( Color.Blue ), new Pen( Color.Green ), new Pen(Color.Red) };

How to infinitely cycle through the 3 Pens?

thanx

Robert Rohde1-Oct-05 10:20

1-Oct-05 10:20

Like this?

int i = 0;
while (true) {
i = i % 3;
Pen nextPen = activePen[i];
//Do something with nextPen
i++;
}

Anonymous1-Oct-05 10:30

1-Oct-05 10:30

That works-thanks-- but I have one Pen array for the form and
several different g.DrawLine calls to put a few different colored
lines on the form due tied to text boxes --- thanks again

Robert Rohde1-Oct-05 11:45

1-Oct-05 11:45

Well you don't need the while loop. Instead make a private member out of i and put call this method to get a Pen:

//member of your form
private int _penIndex = -1;

private Pen GetNextPen() {
_penIndex = (_penIndex + 1) % 3;
return activePen[_penIndex];
}

BOOL FLAG Problem in Paint Handler

Member 23224411-Oct-05 11:53

Member 2322441

1-Oct-05 11:53

HI, I WAS WONDERING IF YOU KNOW HOW TO WRITE A CODE TO A DOWNLOAD PAGE?
IF SO CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME?
I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO IT...

dontunderstand

Anonymous1-Oct-05 7:28

Re: BOOL FLAG Problem in Paint Handler

1-Oct-05 7:28

I have code that will draw a line on a form. When I hard code it to draw the line it works fine, meaning every time
the form launches a line is drawn. Now i want to set a bool flag and pass it in as a conditional statement to drawn the
line when the Button1 is clicked. I know I'm missing something obvious.

public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
//Member fields.
private bool drawLine1 = false;..............etc
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

private void Form1_Paint(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e)
{
if(drawLine1) //DRAW LINE 1 IS ALWAYS FALSE.....
DrawComplexNumber(e.Graphics);.............etc

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

private void Button_1OK_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
drawLine1 = !drawLine1;
Invalidate();
}

How do I fix it? Please -- need a "nuts and bolts" answer, not an "abstract" explanation. Thanks a lot in advance....

Robert Rohde1-Oct-05 7:42

Re: BOOL FLAG Problem in Paint Handler

1-Oct-05 7:42

The code seems to be ok but I noticed that your button click eventhandler has a strange name. You should probably check if the click event of the button is really bound to that method.
Just check (eg by setting a brakepoint) if the drawLine1 = !drawLine1 is being hit and if drawLine1 has the correct contents afterwards.
Then check if you prpbably set drawLine1 back to false somewhere else in your code. Doing some Console.WriteLine("DrawLine1: " + drawLine1.ToString()) here and there should also help you to trace down the problem.

Hope you don't feel this answer is abstract but if you test this code in an empty form you will see that it works and that the error must come from somewhere else.

Anonymous1-Oct-05 9:11