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Subject:Re: Library Hex Editing Experiment
Date:9 Mar 2023 23:24:31 -0400
From:"Kevin Zawicki" <numberjack@wi.rr.com>
Newsgroups:pnews.paradox-programming


Hmmm, this is delivered, so basically compiled. A hex editor would not "uncompile"
it to viewable?
The source code is removed.


We can tell it was likely Paradox 9.
As far as I know, there is no way to decompile. The "text" you see are symbols
of the code.

I think this would practically be safe, but not protect the data in a table.



Peter <peterspammenot@whiteknight.email> wrote:
>
>I have attached two delivered libraries with sample data containing 
>employee name and ID number. Nothing else.
>
>I'm hoping someone has time to open each with a hex editor to let me 
>know if they can see sensitive information. I tried but saw nothing 
>other than the names, but I don't know much about hacking.
>
>Int.ldl
>has a dynarray with three elements in the format
>var dynint   dynarray[]smallint
>
>dynInt["Jack"] = 99
>dynInt["Jill"] = 5
>dynInt["Sam"] = 105
>
>The names can be seen but can the smallint value be seen?
>
>
>Str.ldl
>var dynname  dynarray[]string
>
>dynName[99] = "Jack"
>dynName[5] = "Jill"
>dynName[105] = "Sam"
>
>Again, the names can be seen but can the elements be seen?
>


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