i would like to encrypt my data files, which are serialized object files. is there a simple way to do this that will work trouble free on both windows xp and vista?
my environment: windows xp pro (sp3), visual studio 2008 pro, (sp1, sdk 1.1)
Basically, I need to transmit data across a network from point A to point B using a Binary Serialization System. I'm doing this to make sure that the system can't have outside listeners read the data being sent easily and to keep results secure and confidential.What is an easy way that I can encrypt, say, a generic object? Would it be easiest to serialize it to file, read the bytes in, encrypt the bytes, then store the bytes in a serialized structure and send that across the stream and reverse the process?
Private Function EncryptClass(ByVal obj As Object) As Byte()
Dim key() As Byte = {52, 15, 85, 150,
45, 12, 78, 120,
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what the relation between Serialization and encrypting files, i wanna know that and i wanna a lessons for serialization and i want to ask about this code in VB6 if we can convert it to VB.net 2008
Dim a As String * 10
Dim b As String * 10
Dim c As String * 10
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how I can encrypt .pdf files? I haven't been able to find something that will give me an idea of how to do it.
View 4 RepliesI'm writing a program in Basic where users can select a File using OpenFileDialog, then using a Dialog with two textboxes as the way to set the password to encrypt a file. I'm having trouble getting the program to require the password to open the file.
View 5 RepliesI have a thought about using a Serializable Collection containing both data objects and also sub-collections as a low-grade database, meaning it's going to store data objects that are expected to be added to regularly and deleted from occasionally.
View 3 RepliesI have a DER file with sha1RSA as the Signature Algorithm. I have to encrypt some data using it.Can anyone tell me how do I load the DER file and use the RSA public key in it to encrypt my data in .NET?
View 1 RepliesI am currently using a binary formatter to serialize/deserialize some data objects. Some of the properties in the classes are Strings. When the data is written you can open the file with a text editor and can see the raw String data. Is there any way to encrypt the Strings or the entire object before it is serialized? I have looked at this thread here [URL] but the code is in C# and the free converters I tried for some reason did not like the code. This is the code I am using currently.
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I did a code to insert a data into a mdb database but I want the data to be saved in the database in an encrypted manner.
View 7 RepliesI'm reading a file into a buffer using the Space function. Then I'm using blowfish dll's to encrypt it, and want to write the encrypted data to a txt file. (I realize you can use .NET cryptography classes, but I need to use these old blowfish dll's for this project.) Anyway, when when I encrypt the data in the buffer, I can see all encrypted data, but when I write it out to a file, I get a few lines of encrypted data and the rest of plain text.
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' BLOCK_SIZE is a const which = 2048
sBlock = Space(BLOCK_SIZE)
Using sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader(FileToEncrypt)
sBlock = sr.ReadToEnd()
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I have a folder. With folders. With files (mainly .pngs).
For learning purposes, I am trying to create an application that will take that folder and "compile" it in one single data file. Like a .bin. The point is, the user can't see or edit the images... easily.
And in the future, my application can open such data file and read the folder's contents, and also display the images found within the folder (using Image.fromFile("pathForTheFile") or something like that).
Is that possible? Is it possible to "encrypt" or "compile" folders/images or even audio into one file and re-read it in a future using VB.NET?
In .NET (at least <=2) there's a problem serializing objects that raise events when those events are handled by a non-serializable object (like a Windows Form).Because of the way VB.NET implements events, when you serialize an object, its events get serialized too (because events are actually implemented using hidden multicast delegate fields). A side effect of this is that any object which handles events raised by the object being serialized will be considered part of the object graph and will be serialized too.
Some workarounds could be found, implementing custom serialization or using delegates instead of events:[URL]..
I have used XML serialization to persist objects in my application but I am now interested in using null- able Data types for properties. Will I still be able to serialize?
View 6 RepliesI'm building a simple game which involves many pictureboxes with which the player may collide. For instance, I'd have a hundred bricks spread throughout the level. In an old version of pacman I built in VB6 (and upgraded to .net), I implemented this like so: [Code]
As I understood, the brick(I) array exists thanks to the naming of the bricks, which ranges from _brick_0 to _brick_217 (as nowhere in the project a brick array is declared implicitly, at least not that I could find). I'd like to do the same in my current project, but even when I duplicate an existing brick it automatically renames it to "PictureBox123" instead of _ExistingName_NextID.
I saw a method of declaring a picturebox array and adding the bricks one by one, but since I have so many pictures this would best be avoided (especially due to the fact that not all pictures are bricks, so I cant just loop through every picture in the form). In short, my question is: How do I duplicate pictureboxes so that they'd be serialized in a way vb.net would interpret as a picturebox array? As you can see, i'm a really newbie to vb.net and wf in general, just started studying wf a couple days ago for my B.Sc and even that was accomplished with c#.
I have created a class from an xml schema (that I do not own and cannot change) using xsd.exe. Using this class, I am deserializing to bring the data in to an object collection to consume. There are times when I want to take objects in memory and pass them to the class created by xsd.exe using a constructor I built to generate a serialiable object collection.
I cannot figure out how to format some objects correctly Example: In the xml file, there are certain simple types that are floats that come in with 6 digits of precision. When I write them out, they have 7 digits of precision. Anorther example is integers with leading zeros in the xml file. They come in as 4 digits regardless of leading zeros, but I can't find a suitable way using serialization to output them (other than to change the property to a string datatype.[code]...
I am generating this XML using the serializer in VB.net as shown below
Dim string_writer As New StringWriter()
Dim serializer As New XmlSerializer(GetType(MyClass))
serializer.Serialize(string_writer, addr)
txttest.Text = string_writer.ToString()
though it is returning XML, I see xmlns="http://tempuri.org/ in all the elements, is there anyway I hide this one.
How can I send and recieve serialized objects over a TCP connection with size and data type values in the header (within array(0) and array(1) values)?
I know how to serialize and send the object using
BinaryFormatter.Serialize
But on the receiving end I dont know the size of the obejct sent therefore I dont know when to stop reading the data stream. I also dont know how to take the recieved data and put it into an array of bytes().
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I am using this to load settings files, but if a piece is missing, then the whole thing fails. What can I use to load each node individually instead?
This is my first post on here--I've been teaching myself VB via forums like this and MSDN for about 2 years now. I'm programming a computerized economics experiment, and I'm using a communications package that a guy I worked with developed. He and I have been going back and forth trying to figure out what the heck is going on.
The upshot of the communications package is that there's a serializeable MQMessage class that we send back and forth, essentially just a package of an integer (Type), string (Text), and Object (Data). Most of the time, this goes according to plan.
The problem is this: If the client receives two or more messages back-to-back, the client stops raising the MessageArrived event. (and presumably, the same would hold true for the server--I should test this, but jeez-oh-man, I've been running test after test for the last week).It's still connected, as on disconnect it throws the "Socket forcibly closed" exception. When it receives multiple messages sequentially, it's still receiving the data, it just never knows when the first message ends, and the buffer just keeps filling and filling. The problem seems to be that it can never successfully Deserialize the MQMessage object, and so it returns Nothing on the getCompletedMessage function and just keeps adding to the buffer (ABuffer.Length goes 1024, 2048, etc.).
Let's say I have the following class structure (simplified from my real-world problem):
Public Class PC_People_Container
Private _people_list As New List(Of PL_Person)
Public Sub New()[code].....
If I were to serialize this, I'd get the default assigned node names in my XML. That means my root is named PC_People_Container and each person in the list is marked up as PL_Person. I know I can change the root node using <XmlRoot(ElementName :="PeopleContainer")>. The trouble is doing that for the subclasses. I can't use the <XmlRoot> tag on PL_Person class because there can't be two root elements, and IntelliSense throws a fit when I try to use the <XmlElement> tag on a class like I would on a property. Is it even possible to control what those subclasses are named when they're serialized as child nodes?
I need to add some code to the EndInit method of a PictureBox control but unfortunately its private and, from what I can gather, I can't shadow it and call base - at least not in VB.Net.What I can do is add a dummy property to my picture box class. The type of the dummy property is simply a class that just implements ISupportInitialize. However, that doesn't work, I need the dummy class to inherit from Control.Is that the minimum requirement?
View 1 RepliesChanging datatypes of properties of serialized objects?
View 1 RepliesFor example I got this part of a method which serializes a textfile with a password and then encrypts it using the rijndael encryption method[code]...
View 8 RepliesI'm trying to send a XML serialized class over a network stream
the send is working
Dim IP As Net.IPAddress = System.Net.IPAddress.Parse(IPAddress)
Dim IPE As New Net.IPEndPoint(IP, 10003)
Dim TCPClient As New Net.Sockets.TcpClient
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I always get an error {"Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host."} The XMLFile has the xml document in it most of the time and I can go on and everything works but 1 out of every 5 times it doesn't work at all and the XMLFile contains nothing ..
How can I send and recieve serialized objects over a TCP connection with size and data type values in the header (within array(0) and array(1) values)?I know how to serialize and send the object using BinaryFormatter.Serialize.I dont know how to take the recieved data and put it into an array of bytes().Also - on the receiving end I dont know the size of the object sent therefore I dont know when to stop reading the data stream so I cant use: Dim Obj As ClassName = DirectCast(BinaryFormatter.Deserialize(Stream), ClassName).
View 1 RepliesI have a class like this:
<Serializable()> Public Class GOODownloadFile
Private aID As String
Private aDownloadLink As String
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Now when I create an object like this
Dim f As New GOODownloadFile("http:\download.com1.exe", "c:Down", "c:Down")
downloader.AddDownloadFile(f)
downloader.WriteInfoFile("C:1.txt")
All the values given are correctly saved in the file 1.txt But when I change the download file info afterwatds, like this:
Dim f As New GOODownloadFile("http:\download.com1.exe", "c:Down", "c:Down")
downloader.AddDownloadFile(f)
downloader.WriteInfoFile("C:1.txt")
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the new value (123456) is not saved. Hence, only the values provided BEFORE the AddDownload are saved, the rest aren't.
I've check my code 100times, and I'm sure everything is fine. I think it may be because of the send-by-value. When I change the values afterwards, the orginal object isn't used.
I'm building a simple game which involves many pictureboxes with which the player may collide. For instance, I'd have a hundred bricks spread throughout the level. In an old version of pacman I built in VB6 (and upgraded to .net), I implemented this like so:
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I am new to .net classes and i would like to know how can i encrypt a text with AES256 algorithm.
View 3 RepliesI have a serializable Message class that has a Data As Object property that I'm using as a generic holder for information to be sent via a system that uses a combination of push technology and/or IPC to communicate with any other programs that are interested in the information. This allows the communication piece to be agnostic of the information it transmits.
I was serializing this Data As Object as a Byte[], since I was worried about how an Object being serialized and transmitted across the network would behave on the other side. However, when deserializing I get errors about being unable to find the assembly for the types stored within my Data As Object property, because I'm deserializing in the assembly that contains the Message class... not the assembly that contains the type that Data As Object originally was.I was wondering if I'd lose the type information and be unable to cast it back to the type I want at the other end. Perhaps it's not possible to pass a type as an Object via another assembly without it knowing about my type?
I attempt to serialize an object, and it throws an exception as shown below. I assume it attempts to serialize also the UserControl that subsribes to an event of the class I try to serialize. This is not desired. So how do I avoid serializing events?
SerializationException occured:Type 'System.Windows.Forms.UserControl' in Assembly'System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' is not marked as serializable.
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