How to use TeaEncode?

[CoreyHUN]

Hey guys, does anybody know how to encode DFF files with teaEncode? Can someone write an exact example for it?

[HUNGRY:3]

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/TeaEncode

[CoreyHUN]

I couldn't even understand the wiki, i'm confused about it, it's hard to understand for me

[Addlibs]

thefile = fileOpen( < File > ) 
content = fileRead(thefile) 
encodedContent = teaEncode(content, < Key >) 

But I don't see why you would do that - sooner or later you will need to decode the file, save it, load it through engineLoadDFF and then maybe delete the decoded one. MTA currently doesn't support loading DFF files into buffer to create a 'DFF' element out of it.

If you want to encode it into a standard base64 (without tiny encryption algorithm), then use base64Encode and base64Decode, but as said earlier, it's quite useless for DFF files.

[Gallardo9944]

local info = "http://er-mta.net" 
local key = "somewordshere" 
local encrypted = teaEncode(info,key) 
outputChatBox(encrypted) -- will output hashed line, in this example: QfHxIWo2bp2J4rUr4rnPcboBG84R0KJ0 
local decrypted = teaDecode(encrypted,key) -- decrypt with the same key 
outputChatBox(decrypted) -- will output "http://er-mta.net" 

That's the basic example. Encrypt it and then fileWrite. You can decrypt your file and use engineLoadDFF(decrypted) with that string you got. This way, you better use:

function teaEncodeBinary( data, key ) 
    return teaEncode( base64encode( data ), key ) 
end 
function teaDecodeBinary( data, key ) 
    return base64decode( teaDecode( data, key ) ) 
end 

But I don't see why you would do that - sooner or later you will need to decode the file, save it, load it through engineLoadDFF and then maybe delete the decoded one. MTA currently doesn't support loading DFF files into buffer to create a 'DFF' element out of it.

Not really. It supports raw data since 1.4.1 r7088

[CoreyHUN]

So basically what you are saying is, I should load the DFF, encrypt then delete it then write a new file using the encrypted data?

[Addlibs]

Well.. You can do onClientResourceStart resourceRoot triggerServerEvent requestDFFs

and the make the server read the file stored in the resource folder (not added to meta.xml, so that it won't be downloaded by the client), send it to the client (probably encoded, so that hackers cannot "pull" data from networking), decode it in the client, and load it into DFF form by raw data.