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saratoga:

--- Quote from: ruster on April 22, 2007, 06:12:13 PM ---is there any way to write a program that will be accessible by password and that program contains files (music, games, text ect.)?

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You could write your own encrypted file system for rockbox, but it probably wouldn't be accepted into CVS since theres not much use for it.

Mikerman:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on April 22, 2007, 06:24:19 PM ---You mean as a plugin for Rockbox or what? A locking feature has been requested several times and rejected. It would only provide basic locking / encryption and it completely doesn't make sense on a portable music player with limited ressources, especially not when (ce)crypting on the fly.
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Interesting--I would have thought that password protection with Rockbox would be a natural and beneficial, for example for a passwords file. But perhaps the benefits do not outweigh the costs, especially for such limited use. And with the relatively low price of thumbdrives, now, perhaps with a lesser need.  

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: Mikerman on April 22, 2007, 06:51:34 PM ---Interesting--I would have thought that password protection with Rockbox would be a natural and beneficial, for example for a passwords file. But perhaps the benefits do not outweigh the costs, especially for such limited use. And with the relatively low price of thumbdrives, now, perhaps with a lesser need.  

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You can use the player for passwords like a thumbdrive -- the encryption / decryption still happens on the PC, not on the drive. On the fly encryption of the files on disk is a different thing -- password safe programs usually save their data in an encrypted file, and there is no reason why such a file couldn't exist on the player. You can also install the needed tool on the player, it's a simple harddisk -- but you always will need a PC to run the tool.

Mikerman:
Understood.

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