Cryptor, anyone?

[Dan Freeman]

I have an inherited app that uses Cryptor. The people who built the app left the company more than a decade ago an the people who were here in the intervening years ignored the app. Now, all of a sudden, they want me to do stuff with it.

There's no sign of any docs on how Cryptor works anywhere on the network. Emails to the email link on Xitech's website bounce.

Anyone got a better email address or the docs for Cryptor?

 

[Olaf Doschke]

I belive Xitech is not in business anymore. I know one person I met rarely using Cryptor, he might have a manual, not sure, though.

You find a bit about Cryptor and also Konxise at the fox wikis, maybe look there, as far as I remember it's quite a simple call to subscribe DBF files to Cryptor and then it's en/deccrypted.

There's not much more about it.

Which version do you have?

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CryptorOnWindowsVista

is mentioning a COM class for Cryptor.Once you do

PUBLIC XiCr
XiCr = Create Object("XitechCryptor.Cryptor")

you should find out more via Intellisense.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

...there also is a DLL and FLL version, as far as I see.
Which version and variant DLL/FLL/COM will surely be helpful to know.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Dan Freeman]

It looks like we've both had the google machine working.

Doug Hennig has a terrifically useful article on using the COM interface, and I found a brief article on UT that actually had the info I needed (I think).

My goal here is to rip it out entirely. The original developers were well-meaning, protecting the company's "secret sauce" formulas. But in every day use, they print the formulas and post them on bulletin boards on the plant floor for all to see. There's no encryption on a piece of paper tacked to the wall.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

It's a backup. And having that unencrypted conceals the sensitive nature of this data.

 

[Dan Freeman]

No, not in this case. In an enterprise where the inventory control clerks use the SA account to query SQL Server data, security is not the first concern.