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[Ben Sgro]

Hello Joe,

Take a look at ionCube encoder. I use this and it works great.

- Ben

Joe Leo wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for your reply and comments.... I am not so much looking to 
> have data encrypted from the user. But, encryption on the "server 
> side".... For example, I want to be able to
> encrypt a web site folder and DB and upload to my hosting provider and 
> know the data is
> safe but will continue to serve users as normal.
>
> I just read about TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) which is Open 
> Source. This could be what I am looking for. Anyone use TrueCrypt?
>
> Joe
>
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Dan Cech <dcech at phpwerx.net 
> <mailto:dcech at phpwerx.net>> wrote:
>
>     Joe Leo wrote:
>
>         I am trying to research about using website/data encryption
>         methods or
>         approaches out there. Any tools that allows the web site data
>         & db to be
>         encrypted. I've read about HTML protector
>         (www.html-protector.com <http://www.html-protector.com>) - Anyone
>         use this type of tool?
>         What are the open source tools that can do this - if any? What
>         are the
>         performance considerations? And, how would this type
>         of encrytion affect search engine rankings?
>
>
>     Joe,
>
>     This is a fools errand, in order for a web browser to display your
>     page it must be able to download the html and assets (images, css,
>     etc).
>
>     I took a quick look at 'html-protector' and was less than
>     impressed. The 'protection' consists of using javascript to write
>     the page from an obfuscated string.  The 'password prompt' is
>     javascript also, and the password is present in the source.
>
>     The cost of all this 'security'? The page is invisible to search
>     engines and won't work at all for people with javascript disabled.
>
>     If you want to obfuscate your html you can certainly make it
>     (slightly) more difficult for people to 'Save Page As...', but the
>     html is always going to be out there.
>
>     Dan
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