Pre-Compiling

[Jbob]

I have been using Rainmeter for awhile now, but I never liked that you had to use plain text passwords in the configuration files. So I have taken some of my old save file obfuscation code that I used in a Lemmings clone/port I made in Lua and have ported it to RainMeter. It currently works great(though this approach could easily be reversed if someone really wanted to find out your password); e.g.

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|-3582|-2628.591,-7885.773,-12842.5446,-15170.7252,-13142.955,-24333.2424,-29177.3601,-35748.8376,-34134.1317,-42808.482

And

|9009|6611.1045,19833.3135,32299.9677,38155.5174,33055.5225,61199.9388,73383.25995,89911.0212,85849.91415,107666.559,40516.62615

Both equal 'FireFlower' and can be parsed using my plugin.

My question is; Since this is an obfuscation plugin, the source for the algorithm should not be open source(but could be). So I tried compiling the code, since Lua compiles on run-time I simply did the compiling for it. But RainMeter will not accept the compiled code. Is there anyway to use compiled Lua code in RainMeter, or at least manually implament 'require', 'dofile' or using 'assert' with 'loadfile' with RainMeter?

[poiru]

What you're trying to do is no more secure than plain text passwords. I imagine you want to be able to do something like this:

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[Measure]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=WebParser
Url=#ObfuscatedPassword#

While that may seem effective at first, there are numerous ways to view the password. For the example above, one could simply use the About dialog to view the value of the variable.

[Jbob]

I completely agree with you on how insecure this method is, but it would still provide a little more security (which could be stripped quite easily) for the passwords. The concept of the secure password manager has changed to remove those flaws completely (so the only way to get the password would be 1. decompile my program 2.Monitor internet traffic). However, I would still like to know if it is possible to compile Lua scripts built for RainMeter.

(Post edited because I accidentally overwrote it with a new message )

[thatsIch]

I guess you can pre-compile your lua code and then load with a own plugin using luac[1] and execute with lua_dofile but never tried it. But would be interessting writing lua libs

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[1] http://www.lua.org/manual/4.0/luac.html

[jsmorley]

Rainmeter today (and for the foreseeable future) will not run compiled Lua code or allow loading of external libraries with .dofile, require or any other method.