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Autodesk Building Systems customer created library protection

We use autodesk building systems and we created our own library for the mechanical elements . we dont want this library to be copied by our employee. and want to know what kind of protection to be taken?

we use Windows XP Pro and each PC includes this library.

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Rich Rumble

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we are looking for an encryption software which can encrypt the library ( about 400 MB). at the same time Autodesk BS software in our PC could reach the library whithout any restriction. is there a solution like that.
screen shots, print outs is not a problem for us. The complete library shouldnt be copied that is what we want.

Rich Rumble

Have you contacted AutoDesk about this, perhaps they have something like that already. There are a variety of file/folder/partition encryption software out there that might suit your need. The crux is, that if the users can access the library, they will be able to decrypt it, and possibly save the plain-text version of it. You might have a look at TrueCrypt and see if it will work for your needs, copy the DB to a truecrypt container and then see if the software can open it, the container has to be decrypted first, the container is stored in memory unencrypted, and the file is never decrypted onto the disk, which is the same for most encryption software. I'll bet that audodesk has a feature where you can encrypt the content of the DB, most apps like it seem to.
-rich

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