Quote Originally Posted by czar
@Lifepower normally I wouldn't be too worried about access to gfx but we have paid around US$20k to have them drawn so we want to protect them from casual poachers. Our product is not for sale for the general public which means these protection measures are probably sufficient.
Again, I suggest you take a look at ASDb component source code (remember, it's on MPL basis ) - you can get some ideas out of it. It uses Blowfish cipher [optionally] to protect the contents of the data file and no, it doesn't load the entire archive, only the record you are trying to retreive.