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<font face="Calibri">HI Todd,<br>
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Well done.<br>
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Anything on the horizon for the </font><font face="Calibri">SHA-2
hashing algorithm?<br>
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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. In the early microprocessor days Motorola gave away
developments kits to the Universities, so all graduates came out
with 6805 skills - so what did their employers buy?<br>
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Delphi got chucked out of the Universities and Polytechs here in
NZ because Microsoft gave away free IDE's and also the
accompanying Course Materials, so the lazy tutors didn't have to
do anything to teach it. A pity that this was not done 20 years
ago.<br>
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cheers<br>
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Gary<br>
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It's good to see Embarcadero possibly breathing some
life back into Delphi with the release of its free
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In case anyone is interested; some months ago I made
some changes to Lockbox2 which were finally merged into
Github this week. <a
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I hope the updated code will soon make its way to
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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.<br>
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So if you're a fan of Lockbox check it out!<br>
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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.<br>
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