Flash Site Design - encrypting flash so that visitors cant save the flash

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encrypting flash so that visitors cant save the flash

damatrixhasu

2006-09-03, 3:24 am

Hi i want my flash to be such that when i put it on my website people cant save the flash or copy it using flash saving tools or by seeing the path to the swf file in the souce of the html.

Jeckyl

2006-09-12, 10:32 pm

You can't encrypt flash. It has to remain as a SWF with correct bytecodes
etc.

And anyway .. if its played, it will end up in the cache, so even if you
have an outer movie, the inner one is still being downloaded to the viewers
PC.

All you can do is try to make it harder to decompile.
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Jeckyl

Jeckyl

2006-09-12, 10:32 pm

> http://www.amayeta.com/

Its quite easy to break that 'encryption'. I tried and it took about 5-10
minute. Also tried it on a SWF I have ,and it broke it (ie. it no longer
functioned correctly).

And such software is VERY danerous as it can change how your script works
and can result in movies that cannot be played (Flash Player is getting
fussier and the illegal scripting bytecode structures these tools use can
well mean in the future your movie will not play).

Also note, that with AS3 (coming in FP9/Flash 9) these tools will no longer
work (and possibly may no longer be required).
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Jeckyl