[Qgis-developer] Qgis custom buil to read obfuscated data

[Martin Dobias]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:53 AM, John Patterson <john at henrygis.com> wrote:
> I'd say that encryption is the answer here - hang the security on the key
> rather than the code. If the requirement is explicitly "should be only
> visible and usable through the customized qgis and not by any other tool.",
> then use GPG[1] or something[2] and add a "File > Load Encrypted Dataset"
> dialog or some such. I would imagine this to be a reasonable solution.

Even when the data is encrypted on disk, they are freely accessible
within QGIS. The user has many opportunities how to access raw data:
- save the layer to another format
- copy all features to another layer
- save the data in python console
- save the data in a plugin

Martin