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Mitch Gallant
Here is a quick demo of using a WinZip self-extracting exe file to neatly
bundle a pps and a linked in audio file (in this case a recording of
Cavatina from The Deer Hunter .. recorded by guess who
Obviously, you can use this approach to bundle together any number of linked
in items, relative to the ppt/pps presentation that references them.
Some notes:
- the exe which is 643 kb was packaged (using licensed WinZip
self-extractor) WITHOUT automatic open, so you can see what is happening.
- the pps has 2 slides, the second one has mp3 recording associated with it
which should start automatically when that slide appears (after 5 second
first slide)
- the SE exe is digitally signed with my Authenticode 2048 bit code-signing
cert. This is not issued by commercial CA so will appear as not trusted; you
can verify if, if you are sufficiently paranoid via my web site jensign.com.
Note that if exe are used to distribute software, they shoudl always be
digitally signed to assist with verifying authenticity of author (in this
case me).
http://www.jensign.com/powerpoint/zipppt.exe
If you prefer, you can save it to your local desktop, right click it,
inspect the digital signature and then launch locally if you wish to see how
it works.
For email attachments this works in a similar way. Also, it is easy to use
AES encryption to protect the zip before is packaged further.
- Mitch Gallant
MVP Security
www.jensign.com
bundle a pps and a linked in audio file (in this case a recording of
Cavatina from The Deer Hunter .. recorded by guess who
Obviously, you can use this approach to bundle together any number of linked
in items, relative to the ppt/pps presentation that references them.
Some notes:
- the exe which is 643 kb was packaged (using licensed WinZip
self-extractor) WITHOUT automatic open, so you can see what is happening.
- the pps has 2 slides, the second one has mp3 recording associated with it
which should start automatically when that slide appears (after 5 second
first slide)
- the SE exe is digitally signed with my Authenticode 2048 bit code-signing
cert. This is not issued by commercial CA so will appear as not trusted; you
can verify if, if you are sufficiently paranoid via my web site jensign.com.
Note that if exe are used to distribute software, they shoudl always be
digitally signed to assist with verifying authenticity of author (in this
case me).
http://www.jensign.com/powerpoint/zipppt.exe
If you prefer, you can save it to your local desktop, right click it,
inspect the digital signature and then launch locally if you wish to see how
it works.
For email attachments this works in a similar way. Also, it is easy to use
AES encryption to protect the zip before is packaged further.
- Mitch Gallant
MVP Security
www.jensign.com