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honestly for what I would use this for in a smallshop etc/personal files.. to pasword protect a mb file is just fine.. and then later i could always zip/rar pw protect the whole maya project directory w a diff password.. so thanks for your work and sharing this with us!
Thanks jooja again for your kind reviews.
As I mentioned this script is not a secure way, just another way to trying to protect maya files without raring or encrypting it.
If you know better way, please write a script so we can use it.
To be honest do to the way maya works there's no way to do protection. More elaborate things have been attempted. but seriously circumventing this took about 2 minutes.
So no really security cannot be in the maya file but it can be in the surrounding structure but once its inside maya you can steal it.
PS: by the way theres a simpler more secure way by using expressions wich can be much more painful to track down. Or using nodes again nothing cam prevent the data stealing tough.
