Protect files that are downloaded in flat mode to the PC
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I am developing an application in qt with qml. My question is the following: my project will need files that will be downloaded from the cloud but I do not want the end clients to simply use these files from another application, how can I protect these source files. Can someone give me a direction for this, some library, some code for this
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I am developing an application in qt with qml. My question is the following: my project will need files that will be downloaded from the cloud but I do not want the end clients to simply use these files from another application, how can I protect these source files. Can someone give me a direction for this, some library, some code for this
@jchaviano said in Protect files that are downloaded in flat mode to the PC:
my project will need files that will be downloaded from the cloud but I do not want the end clients to simply use these files from another application, how can I protect these source files.
Once the bytes are on your user's machine, there is no way for you to enforce the rule that the bytes can only be loaded by one application but not by another application.
Some options are:
- Encrypt the files and give your app the ability to decrypt them.
- Don't let the files get downloaded to disk. Let your application download them directly from the server and only store in memory, not on disk.
Note: These tricks this only makes it harder -- not impossible -- for someone to decrypt/capture the data and use them in another application.
