[fpc-pascal] Resource strings, passwords etc.

Graeme Geldenhuys mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk
Tue Jul 12 21:39:09 CEST 2016


On 2016-07-12 20:12, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Can FPC be told to obfuscate ResourceStrings?

No, but why the hell would you want to hard-code a password inside an
executable. Encrypt it externally and read it from a .INI file at
runtime (or prompt for a password). Even something as simple as
XorString() is better than nothing - compared to storing it inside your
source code.

Regards,
  Graeme

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