10-24-2014 11:48 AM
How do I encrypt a data file so that it cannot be read without the proper authority?
I have an application where the customer should not have access to the data I need to record for troubleshooting purposes. (there are industrial secrets I wish to protect) My plan is to record a datalog (currently I am producing a tab-delimited spreadsheet format) whenever the device is running and hide the files where they will probably not be found. But some sort of encryption or at least password protection would be better.
I've never tried to do this before, but thought it would be fairly easy. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.
Thanks
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10-24-2014 11:52 AM
Well, you could look into something like DES, Triple DES, AES, etc. There are libries floating around for these written in LabVIEW. I'm not sure about the cost though.
If you want a really simple way to protect your data, just invert all or some of the bits in each byte of your file. It is super simple and turns a nice ASCII text file into noise when read from a text file.
10-24-2014 12:15 PM
Thanks!
That should do it.