How to make a video visible for only ONE person?

[Videoquestion1]

Hi

I'm searching for a way to send video's to a persons computer, and that person is only allowed to open that video on his computer and nowhere else. Also downloading must be unabled.

Is there anyway I can do this? Can someone please help be out?

I will be very grateful!

Thanks

[hech54]

Open an account at mega.co.nz
Archive (Zip or RAR) your video with a password. Upload the archive to Mega, send the link and archive password to the your recipient.
Done

The recipient can do whatever he wants with it(the video) afterwords though. There is no way to prevent that. If they can watch it, they can copy it.

[yoda313]

The only problem with hech54's approach is aren't there password crackers for zip and rar?

And hech54 is correct in stating that once the video is obtained anything can happen to it.

Just be prepared that it could be distributed.

But if you trust this person and its not of an embarassing nature you should be ok. Just be warned.

[Hessian]

Again, once that person has access to the video there's nothing stopping them from copying and redistributing it. But if you trust that person, on YouTube you can set your video to 'Unlisted' and this means that only someone who has been given the link will be able to see it.
https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=157177

[Videoquestion1]

Thank you for your comments. But sending it in ZIP will make it too easy to distribute. Anything like Youtube but where you can only but one IP adress so that only that IP can see the video? It would be really great if that would be possible.

[yoda313]

But there are youtube downloaders and you can still try using screen capture programs or simply hold up a video camera or phone camera and record the screen.

You see it can't be a 100% secure.

[Cauptain]

Low resolution + grain video + watermark (PLEASE, NO COPY in every 15secs) will reduce the desire to copy any video.

I agree yoda313. No security for video.



Claudio

[_Al_]

You can increase convenience to watch those videos through your private web site, perhaps it will cost you $50 -$70(domain, traffic) and a great deal of learning if you never done that before.
You set your website with videos and web player. You can set htaccess file on your server so only certain IP addresses can access that website. But this is quite annoying, because people's IP addresses will change and they would have to contact you that it is not working anymore. IP address filter could be very annoying for the other side. You can set a password to access your web site instead. You can set both, password and IP filter. But in any case, you let somebody to watch your video , it is out there for sure, you have no control what is going to happen with that video.

[mike20021969]

The only problem with hech54's approach is aren't there password crackers for zip and rar?

Password cracking programs are a pointless waste of anyone's (computing) time.

How long would it take to crack a password like this from scratch?

C^5U#7Fv$7Gw)8h{2Ri,2Sj<Ht&6Eq#7l%7Go^Ry:0Nz/2Tf6Du&8Iz|0Oa+Yk{3

[isapc]

I'm searching for a way to send video's to a persons computer.
Send yourself with the video to the persons computer.

and that person is only allowed to open that video.

Only allow that person to use the mouse.

Also downloading must be unabled.

Overthrow the USA goverment to achieve this.

[Hoser Rob]

You just don't have permission levels on the internet the way you would on a LAN. If they can watch it it can be downloaded and redistributed.

[zoobie]

How long would it take to crack a password like this from scratch?

C^5U#7Fv$7Gw)8h{2Ri,2Sj<Ht&6Eq#7l%7Go^Ry:0Nz/2Tf6Du&8Iz|0Oa+Yk{3

There was a news item recently on passwords. It said 6 characters was usually easy to crack but 7 could take years. I'm guessing your example would take a few centuries.

[transporterfan]

5.205271751303221e+83 centuries.


'C^5U#7' = 1 day
'C^5U#7F' = 4 months, 16 days
'C^5U#7Fv' = 23 years
'C^5U#7Fv$' = 1800 years
'C^5U#7Fv$7' = 137600 years
'C^5U#7Fv$7G' = 10729100 years (I think this one can be considered 'safe' )

Even if the attacker knows the length of the password, as long as a random combination of numbers, letters and punctuation are used (with no sequential repeats), and no dictionary words are used, then the above numbers are considered reasonable estimates. These figures are based on an average computer hacker's computer power.

[mike20021969]

5.205271751303221e+83 centuries.
'C^5U#7' = 1 day
'C^5U#7F' = 4 months, 16 days
'C^5U#7Fv' = 23 years
'C^5U#7Fv$' = 1800 years
'C^5U#7Fv$7' = 137600 years
'C^5U#7Fv$7G' = 10729100 years (I think this one can be considered 'safe' )

So even the 8 random characters would take 23 years.

The handy little (free) program I used was IObit Random Password Generator.
It generates passwords up to 64 character long

[Cornucopia]

You create your video, then you also create your own custom video player app - from scratch so it doesn't rely on existing libraries which might make it vulnerable. Then you embed the video into the custom player, which was built to only use that one video, which has its own custom codecs, and you password protect/encrypt the player so that if it counts 1 successful opening/playing, the next time it is opened, it erases itself. Oh, yeah, the acceptance of the link is tied to that particular MAC address.

Scott

But don't try to overthrow the US, or I would have to turn you in, since you would have messed up our lives, eh?!

[Noahtuck]

Plain, simple and to the point, it's never going to happen!!!!!!

And to parrot you from another thread,

The only problem with hech54's approach is aren't there password crackers for zip and rar?

What does that have to do with the OP ?


Once the person has the video and the password to the file if it is RAR'd, then unrar it, they can then give it to anyone or post it anywhere to their hearts content!!

[hech54]

I had a passworded Zip file once that I tried to crack with several different programs.....no luck at all.
Later when I was given the password, it contained only 3 simple letters.

[Mephesto]

Cornucopia's idea reminds me of this EXE I stumbled upon a few years ago that went fullscreen, started displaying weird random shit that looked like a bad LSD binge, accompanied with melancholy music and a heavily distorted voice that luckily had subtitles. It went something like "I'm back, the hated but now insignificant one. None of you insects have changed but I sure have. The project is returning and the apocalypse nears." He talked about how the best part is that we won't know where to start when trying to figure out how we got ourselves in the mess and that we'll waste time killing our friends way before we realize the source of the apocalypse he talks about. Said we knowingly bought into his scheme and paid a heavy price yet volunteered again and again. "Come sell your existence to me like you know you will, you know me very well"

It was surreal. If only it said "this is the first and last time you'll see me" so I would know firsthand to grab a camera and get it on film because I couldn't find it again after that because it likely purged itself. The fact that everyone I've talked about it with accuses me of hallucinating really makes me pissed off that I haven't put twice the effort to try and retrieve it when I had the chance.

Anyway, this is the only way the OP will get what he wants. He'll have to write his own self-executing code that'll operate an independent decoder and player that'll self-purge after the first time it's run. That still doesn't discount the possibility of someone recording the screen.

Because I was caught by surprise with the video I saw, I didn't, but some people like your friend might have a camera handy and way better reflexes than me. It's a lost cause.

[yoda313]

He'll have to write his own self-executing code that'll operate an independent decoder and player that'll self-purge after the first time it's run.

I wonder how things like norton or mcaffe antivirus handle home-spun stuff like that. Again offtopic here but that takes a lot of trust on the recipient to assume that something sneaky or illegitamate isn't thrown on to their system.

[mike20021969]

I'm searching for a way to send video's to a persons computer, and that person is only allowed to open that video on his computer and nowhere else. Also downloading must be unabled.

I'm wondering - it's either something very dodgy or top secret.

[Cornucopia]

If this is being equated with a virus, it's probably because, for all intents and purposes, it IS a virus (certainly behaving like one).

And, as was already mentioned, if it can be played, it can be copied. END OF STORY.

Scott

[Hessian]

I'm wondering - it's either something very dodgy or top secret.

I think that if you can't trust your boyfriend to not share your videos of you stripping, then just don't send it to him

[_Al_]

Or it could simply be home video that you do not want to share with the world but rather family only or only some family members only.
Problem is to explain to the family - watch it but rather do not spread those videos around, these could be difficult to explain to family members, so hence IP filter as an idea etc. just some op thinking, problem is how it actually works ...