[fpc-pascal] Resource strings, passwords etc.

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Dennis Poon wrote:

> On the subject,  can the OP simply use UPX to encrypt the executable 
> binary. It won't be secured but no more unsecured than other simple 
> solutions.

I'm the nominal OP, but I raised the question in response to what an 
(ex-) Delphi programmer was asking elsewhere about obfuscators etc. for 
.NET which is what he now uses.

He posts: "...particularly database access strings. I realised I had the 
passwords in plain text, so figured this must be a well-trodden path. 
Found a thread about it from 2006, with detailed discussion. Struck me 
as odd that ten years later it isn't automatically solved in Visual Studio."

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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