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Started by Jack Campin
Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:39
Mac spreadsheets with partitions of hidden data?
Author: Jack Campin
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:39
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:39
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I have a problem that might be appropriately programmed on top of a spreadsheet, but it needs to be structured in such a way as to hide about 10 megabytes of commercially sensitive data. The user should be able to read and edit their own data, but not the tables I provide, and the application should at least make it prohibitively laborious to recover the underlying data by calculation. Further, the spreadsheet must be intelligent about what it saves to disk; the private stuff won't change and multiple copies of it are out of the question, since users will typically have hundreds or thousands of potential instances of the spreadsheet. Is there any Mac spreadsheet that supports this kind of data abstraction and dynamic binding? Or do I give up on them and use a conventional programming language and roll-your-own security-through-obscurity file formats? (The level of security does not need to be mil-spec). -- -- Jack Campin room G092, Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, Scotland TEL: 041 339 8855 x6854 (work) INTERNET: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk or via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: 041 330 4913 BANG!net: via mcsun and uknet BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp
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