I am a co-op student in my fourth term working as a vb programmer. I've had 3 VB classes and I'm doing my best. Right now I am writing a Windows Form program that reads several XML files from a folder inside bin\debug. It is working in debug, (so far).
The end result of this will be that our people will install this program on their laptop and then show it to potential customers. So they need to install the XML files with the program, then be able to check for updates when they are connected to the internet. The "users" do not need to make changes. An administrator will have access to the XML files, update them and then upload them to where the users check for updates.
What would be the simplest way to encrypt the XML files so that no one can open and read them except for the administrator? The program needs to decrypt the files in order to read them, but that is all.
I have searched and searched, and so far I am using this example.
But I'm a beginner and I'm not sure what this is actually doing (other than turning the text of the filenames green in the folder). It doesn't have to be super secure, just enough that an average person couldn't look at the XML and read it.
Thanks
The end result of this will be that our people will install this program on their laptop and then show it to potential customers. So they need to install the XML files with the program, then be able to check for updates when they are connected to the internet. The "users" do not need to make changes. An administrator will have access to the XML files, update them and then upload them to where the users check for updates.
What would be the simplest way to encrypt the XML files so that no one can open and read them except for the administrator? The program needs to decrypt the files in order to read them, but that is all.
I have searched and searched, and so far I am using this example.
But I'm a beginner and I'm not sure what this is actually doing (other than turning the text of the filenames green in the folder). It doesn't have to be super secure, just enough that an average person couldn't look at the XML and read it.
Thanks
