[gameprogrammer] Re: XML/Encryption/C++

[Chris Herborth <chrish@pobox.com>]

Edilson Vasconcelos de Melo Junior wrote:
> I’ll use XML for almost every configuration in my game, but there are a 
> few things I don’t want the regular player to be able to open and edit 
> it in a text editor. Do you know any good library to work with encrypted 
> .xml files? I’m using tinyxml for the xml parsing, but now I think it 
> would be way better if I could encrypt those files.

You could use zlib; compress the XML with gzip, then read it in with 
zlib... it'll decompress, then parse the XML as normal.  For 99.99% of 
your players, this will be more than enough "encryption".

Another benefit is that they'll be ~33% the size of the original XML 
file, so they'll load faster and take up less space.

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Chris Herborth (chrish@pobox.com)           http://www.pobox.com/~chrish/
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