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Work in Progress / Smart Packer Encryption Compression in your own application

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mrniceguy
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2009 22:30 Edited at: 30th Nov 2009 09:36
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Smart Packer Developer Library
Currently we are busy to develop this solution.

This toolset provides allows (game)developers to create an encrypted/compressed archive with files which can be accessed through an included dll.
Can be used in DarkGDK and programming languages like C++, Delphi, Purebasic etc.

Features
- Compression algorithms: ZLib, BZip and PPM
- Encryption algorithms : Rijndael 128/256-bit, DES Single/Tripple, Blowfish 256-bit, Twofish 128/256-bit, Square 128-bit
- Fastest compression levels are extremely fast
- Good balanced compression levels provide both good compression rate and high speed
- Maximum compression levels provide much better compression rate than Zip, RAR and BZIP
- Fast Deflate implementation
- Extracting to memory buffer supported
- Creates self-extracting archive

Available functions in dll:
SP_OpenArchive - opens archive
SP_ExtractToBuffer - extract file from archive to buffer pointer
SP_ExtractToFile - extract file from archive to file
SP_GetFileSize - get filesize file
SP_UpdateFromFile - updates existing file
SP_UpdateFromBuffer - updates existing file from buffer
SP_DeleteFile - delete file in archive
SP_SaveFileList - saves filenames from archive to textfile
SP_CloseArchive - closes archive
SP_WipeFile - overwrites file several times
SP_LockF - locks file or folder
SP_UnlockF - unlocks file or folder

If you have suggestions or remarks just sent me an email.

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Mulderman
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Does it extracts files to some temporary folder when running?


If yes, then whole media can still be stolen within seconds.

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mrniceguy
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Posted: 4th Nov 2009 08:24 Edited at: 4th Nov 2009 08:24
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No. SP_ExtractToBuffer extracts the file to a buffer so no temporary storage is used.

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Mulderman
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Will this be free or shareware?

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mrniceguy
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Posted: 4th Nov 2009 12:49 Edited at: 24th Nov 2009 21:22
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It will be a commercial license. The following licenses will be available.

Single Developer - For commercial use, one developer
Site license - For commercial use, multi-user edition

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mrniceguy
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Here are some pictures of the application.





Different encryption and compression algorithms can be selected. Also there is the possibility to create an self-extracting archive (archivefile is appended to executable).

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Mistrel
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Extracting to a buffer is one thing but then how do you load the model from the buffer?

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mrniceguy
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This tool stores and retrieves files in a secure way and is ment for generic development languages like C++ (DarkGDK?) etc.

The description in the first post wasn't maybe clear enough so I changed it.

It's not a DBPro plugin which loads a model directly. However if there is a demand for such a plugin we will investigate if it's possible.

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lil marioman
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This is looking great! Lots and lots of potential.

Just one quick question though : how would you define non-commercial? (And this applies to all of your applications)

Would non-commercial mean you may distribute something as freeware, but may not earn anything from it, or are you strictly prohibited to distribute it in general?



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Non-commercial means you can't sell your application however distribution is no problem. So using it for freeware applications etc. is allowed.

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[ADDED] SP_WipeFile: overwrites file several times

This toolset will be available in a few weeks.

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[ADDED] SP_LockF - locks file or folder
[ADDED] SP_UnlockF - unlocks file or folder

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[ADDED] Update notification (user gets notification about updates which can be downloaded)

Probaly next week there will be a demo project available.

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We have decided that only Single Developer and Company license will be available.

The Single Developer license can be used for commercial applications and will be affordable for everyone.

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[ADDED] SP_DeleteFile - delete file in archive
[ADDED] SP_SaveFileList - saves filenames from archive to textfile

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Smart Packer Encryption Compression is now released.

More information is in Program Announcements.

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