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Uli
Uli

Reputation: 2693

AS3 - Encrypted local storage

I need to store a password locally from a Flash based app that runs within a browser. Is there an Flash equivalent to Air's encrypted local storage? (I'm publishing for Flash Player 10)

Thanks. Uli

Upvotes: 1

Views: 814

Answers (1)

user562566
user562566

Reputation:

I'd strongly advise against this, because the only way you can do this is by using Flash's shared objects, which are accessible to any flash application. Someone could simply create a flash wrapper to your SWF application and have people visit through their wrapper and then collect sensitive information (the password) with great ease. I'm posting this an answer because if you ever want anyone to feel remotely secure while using your application, this is the only answer.

On another note, you could simply write an AIR app and then when people visit your apps website, they can either have their AIR app launched from your web page or be prompted to install it if they do not already have it. Check out these links for more NFO on that:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=distributing_apps_3.html#1035834
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7fcb.html#WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7e15

Upvotes: 3

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