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XTea Encoder for Delphi (XTED)- v1.0.0 (Freeware!)
Introduction

Sometimes it is necessary, that some text inside an executable file could not be seen or changed. Certainly, it is possible to use the utilities for encryption and/or packing of whole executable file. But not always such way is suitable. Besides, use of such utilities usually results in the increased consumption of memory and sometimes to unstable work of the program.

Xtea Encoder for Delphi (XTED) will help to encrypt the given text with specified password and to encode the result in a kind convenient for embedding in the source code of the Delphi program. Encryption is made with XTea algorithm, which is simple enough for programming and reliable enough. Besides there is a password generator for creation of reliable passwords.
Requirements

* any system running Windows 95/98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP.
* less than 0.5 Megabytes of free space on hard disk.

Overview

After start of the program should appear its main window (see pic.1). Main window contains fields for input of the password and the text for encryption, a field for output of result, and also the block of the passwords generator.

Simply enter the your password in "Password" field, or set the password length, preferably 16 symbols, and press the "Generate" button. Then enter your text to encrypt in "Original text" field, or paste it from clipboard. And press the "Encode" button - ecrypted and encoded text should appear in "Encoded text" field. You may copy this result to clipboard and paste in your source code in Delphi IDE.

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seems neat, but i dont see how this would really help hide strings inside the program... i think it'd be a matter of sniffing out the hash and key and then simply using their module to decrypt it, or if your lazy interupt the call to the module and step through to retrieve the text... if anyone uses this id be interested to run a test on it, seeing as i dont code in delphi i wouldn't be able to test it myself..

Im not trying to down any your submissions, ada, just putting in a thought about it, i think it's great to put this up here since it's obviously much more secure then just embedding plain text:)