-snip sophisticated checksum suggestions--

>Sorry about my LongWindedness, just a birth defect I guess. :>)
>
>rp


rp:

No, on the contrary -- all of your suggestions were excellent. In fact, you
think they way that I do. For example, in one of my programs, I placed a
number in within the first 500 bytes of a PICT file (which is not used for
anything that I am aware) and used that number as a security key so that
anyone with ResEdit could not replace my splash screen -- or at least slow
them down.

Also, in another program within the preference file, I kept user data.
However, I added a checksum value that was computed with an equation that
used a SRQ. I think that it would have been a hard thing to crack.

tedd

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