[DUG] Lockbox Update

[Todd Martin]

Hi Gary


> Well done.
>
> Anything on the horizon for the  SHA-2 hashing algorithm?
>

I started looking at back-porting the SHA2 algorithms from Lockbox 3, but
the code base is quite different and I don't have time to work on it. While
lockbox 2 works nicely, it isn't the most elegant piece of code, so it's on
the back burner for now.


> Agree with you about the Community Edition. Over my career I've seen the
> success that comes with having a free or easy to access entry point..... A
> pity that this was not done 20 years ago.
>

My thoughts entirely! A $5k commercial restriction might still kill the
initiative though, as MS have a $1M limit on visual studio. It shows how
desperate for cash Embarcadero must be by now.

Todd


> cheers
>
> Gary
>
>
> On 20/07/2018 1:29 PM, Todd Martin wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> It's good to see Embarcadero possibly breathing some life back into Delphi
> with the release of its free Community edition.
>
> In case anyone is interested; some months ago I made some changes to
> Lockbox2 which were finally merged into Github this week.
> https://github.com/jarto/lockbox2
> I hope the updated code will soon make its way to Sourceforge as well.
>
> Lockbox2 was originally a pre-unicode solution which was later modified
> with DoSomethingA(ansistring) and DoSomethingW(widestring) methods in a
> similar fashion to the Windows API. I reverted the code to the original
> DoSomething(string) methods by utilising rawbytestring parameters and UTF8
> internally, so that it now works across all versions of Delphi pre/post
> unicode (back to Delphi5) and Lazarus/FPC. The only thing lacking now for
> all modern uses is a SHA-2 hashing algorithm.
>
> So if you're a fan of Lockbox check it out!
>
> Note: Lockbox3 also exists, but it only supports Delphi >= 2010 in a
> manner which is not backwards compatible with pre-unicode Delphi. It also
> does not compile with Lazarus/FPC.
>
> Todd
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