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Hi,
It has taken me awhile to respond because I have been busy trying to track down some way to make what you are trying to do easier, but you have one condition that does not allow anything other than what you are already doing, that condition is working with your group, the old-school engineers (OSE).
I tried finding something to use on your machine or your Firefox (FF) browser:
- FF does have one obfuscation add-on but it does not hide well and only changes the letters of words that can still be read easily.
- Then there is Lock the Text, I installed this onto my version of FF but I still have not mastered it yet to where I can understand how it works so I can not endorse it, and with the passwords you can apply it seems like it would be too difficult for the OSE.
- As mentioned by earlier respondents to your thread there are JavaScript's | not to be confused with JAVA out there that seem promising but only work if you had some type of domain newsletter or blog that works from a server, programmers are shying away from javascript and moving more towards CSS, CSS works better with today's HTML code. This approach is more of a burden on you.
So, what does this boil down to? I might get some discussion from fellow members that my endorsement of what you are already doing is not safe, but if you feel comfortable and okay with doing it, then okay, do it.
This is from your post #5 and I took the liberty of shortening your quote(s), clicking on the orange dot beside your name will take you directly to the post the quote came from:
And later on in your post #8If I understand correctly:
- You compress the .dwg file with the .rar program and upload it to the so site that generates a link to the file, then use urlcrypt on that so site link, and add a password to the urlcrypt link to give to the OSE.
- Another layer of security would be to set a password to the compressed .dwg/.rar file if you are not already doing it, the added burden for you would be to give two passwords to whoever you phone.
- Is your desire to encrypt the link because of spambots or do you have another reason? The only other reason I can think of is to hide the link from engineers that would try to do harm to your drawings.
In my research I used whois.com to see where the URLCrypt.to - Keeping your links safe link goes to and found information that shows the registrant and administrator of urlcrypt Markus Schneider is based in Homburg Germany, there is even an email, address, and phone number if you wanted to contact him to address your concerns about security.
Some reasons for using an offshore domain could be; Price, domain availability, and site ranking. So if it works for you and you are comfortable with using it continue using it.
Then clicking on the related domain ispapi.net I found:Code:urlcrypt.to Domain: urlcrypt.to Created on: Sat Apr 16 06:38:25 2016 Last edited on: Sat Apr 16 06:38:25 2016 Expires on: Sun Apr 16 06:38:25 2017 Primary host add: None Primary host name: ns1211.ispapi.net Secondary host add: None Secondary host name: ns2202.ispapi.net Results from checking SOA records for listed servers: ns3178.ispapi.net: 2016052200 ns2202.ispapi.net: 2016052200 ns1211.ispapi.net: 2016052200 END related domain names ispapi.net
Code:ispapi.net Domain Information Domain: ispapi.net Registrar: 1 API GMBH Registration Date: 2008-10-05 Expiration Date: 2017-10-05 Updated Date: 2016-10-06 Status: clientTransferProhibited Name Servers: ns1011.ispapi.net ns2011.ispapi.net ns3011.ispapi.net Registrant Contact Name: Markus Schneider Street: Zweibruecker Strasse 26 City: Homburg State: Saarland Postal Code: 66424 Country: DE Phone: +49.684192430 Email: email@ispapi.net Administrative Contact Name: Markus Schneider Street: Zweibruecker Strasse 26 City: Homburg State: Saarland Postal Code: 66424 Country: DE Phone: +49.684192430 Email: email@ispapi.net Technical Contact Name: Markus Schneider Street: Zweibruecker Strasse 26 City: Homburg State: Saarland Postal Code: 66424 Country: DE Phone: +49.684192430 Email: email@ispapi.net Raw Whois Data Domain Name: ISPAPI.NET Registry Domain ID: 1522833768_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.1api.net Registrar URL: http://www.1api.net Updated Date: 2016-04-28T08:19:29Z Creation Date: 2008-10-05T15:20:23Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2017-10-05T15:20:30Z Registrar: 1API GmbH Registrar IANA ID: 1387 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: email@1api.net Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +49.68416984x200 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited - http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: Markus Schneider Registrant Organization: Registrant Street: Zweibruecker Strasse 26 Registrant City: Homburg Registrant State/Province: Saarland Registrant Postal Code: 66424 Registrant Country: DE Registrant Phone: +49.684192430 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email: email@ispapi.net Registry Admin ID: Admin Name: Markus Schneider Admin Organization: Admin Street: Zweibruecker Strasse 26 Admin City: Homburg Admin State/Province: Saarland Admin Postal Code: 66424 Admin Country: DE Admin Phone: +49.684192430 Admin Phone Ext: Admin Fax: Admin Fax Ext: Admin Email: email@ispapi.net Registry Tech ID: Tech Name: Markus Schneider Tech Organization: Tech Street: Zweibruecker Strasse 26 Tech City: Homburg Tech State/Province: Saarland Tech Postal Code: 66424 Tech Country: DE Tech Phone: +49.684192430 Tech Phone Ext: Tech Fax: Tech Fax Ext: Tech Email: email@ispapi.net Name Server: ns1011.ispapi.net 194.50.187.11 Name Server: ns2011.ispapi.net 194.0.182.11 Name Server: ns3011.ispapi.net 193.227.117.11 DNSSEC: unsigned URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/ >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2017-01-28T09:14:51Z <<< For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/epp-status-codes-2014-06-16-en. ; This data is provided for information purposes, and to assist persons ; obtaining information about or related to domain name registration ; records. We do not guarantee its accuracy. ; By submitting a WHOIS query, you agree that you will use this data ; only for lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances, you will ; use this data to ; 1) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission of mass ; unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via E-mail ; (spam); or ; 2) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply ; to this WHOIS server. ; These terms may be changed without prior notice. ; By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy. related domain names 1api.net icann.org internic.net
" You compress the .dwg file with the .rar program and upload it to the so site that generates a link to the file, then use urlcrypt on that so site link, and add a password to the urlcrypt link to give to the OSE. "
Absolutely right.
Quite detailed Anak, i absolutely couldn't figured that out by myself. For setting password to the rar. archive sound good too as of now i am gonna add that as a second level of protection before sending to the OSE:)
As for the bots i saw that URlCrypt gives some protection against but to be honest i have no idea how this bots work so that i can make some kind of conclusion. My mind is like: if this protects from that bots it's supposed to be better than none.