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Password encryption
I know passwords can be easily broken so what can I do to really protect
them. Is there a good program out that will totally protect the password in my workbooks? I want to sell my workbooks without fear of them being disected. Thanks. |
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If you allow your clients to open your workbooks, they are more or less
defenseless (I've seen some pretty good layered defenses, but they all fell to attacks that are publicly available, or commercially available at low cost). If you build everything into a COM add-in, you have the best (and pretty good) security you can get with XL. But short of that, you may do better to sell them with minimal or no protection, and develop a great relationship with your clients. In article , Bill R wrote: I know passwords can be easily broken so what can I do to really protect them. Is there a good program out that will totally protect the password in my workbooks? I want to sell my workbooks without fear of them being disected. Thanks. |
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What is a COM add-in, please?
"JE McGimpsey" wrote: If you allow your clients to open your workbooks, they are more or less defenseless (I've seen some pretty good layered defenses, but they all fell to attacks that are publicly available, or commercially available at low cost). If you build everything into a COM add-in, you have the best (and pretty good) security you can get with XL. But short of that, you may do better to sell them with minimal or no protection, and develop a great relationship with your clients. In article , Bill R wrote: I know passwords can be easily broken so what can I do to really protect them. Is there a good program out that will totally protect the password in my workbooks? I want to sell my workbooks without fear of them being disected. Thanks. |
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See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=238228 and http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;291392 In article , Bill R wrote: What is a COM add-in, please? |
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Bill R.
I feel your pain... I have the same dilemma in that I wrote a password encryption generator (along with a few other nifty worksheets) and cannot secure it from those those would plagiarize my work. Ive given it to friends and family, but the hesitation to distribute it for profit has me in a quandary. To undo this end, Ive embarked down the path of teaching myself VB and am in the process of re-writing my work into a windows executable. So far, Im fairly happy with the results. I believe too youll find, (especially if you can write a complex xls project worthy of selling), that VB(A) macros make up most of the engine behind brilliant worksheets. Its only seems logical then that it should be the final evolution of a worthy project that it becomes a pure VB creation. -- Regards... "Bill R" wrote: I know passwords can be easily broken so what can I do to really protect them. Is there a good program out that will totally protect the password in my workbooks? I want to sell my workbooks without fear of them being disected. Thanks. |
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