Re: Can wrap encode plain text?

Daniel,

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3CEE6216.DFA8C4D2_at_exesolutions.com...
> Andrew Hardy wrote:
>
> > But even that leaves all the text in clear view.
> >
> What I teach my students is to put text into procedures they are going to
wrap
> that is intended to mislead or obfuscate the real text. So, for example,
you
> might define 26 separate words (rather than the 5 I did above) and just
choose
> to not use 21 of them. With very little effort you can obscure anything as
you
> will clearly see if you run the SELECT statement below"
>
> SELECT TRANSLATE ('zhks ks a sfcrfz', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
> 'abcdfeghkjilmnopqrszuvwxyt ')
> from dual;

True, it's just a pity that you need to think about how to hide code when you should be thinking about writing it clearly!

Andy
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Fri May 24 2002 - 11:23:36 CDT