Progress report #1, on Version 2 of Royal TS. Hopefully I manage to do this more often and I would be grateful for any feedback.

As you may know from the previous post, Royal TS will allow you to open multiple documents at the same time. This might be handy if you are working in a team and have spread your configuration across multiple documents, or if you want to have one document for each of your clients, etc.

Similar to Version 1.5x or later, Royal TS Version 2 will also allow you to encrypt your passwords with a password/passphrase. So if you have a couple of documents protected with the same password, it might be annoying when you get a prompt for each and every document you open in the same instance of Royal TS.

So I invented the “Password Cache” (patent pending ) which basically holds a secure copy of your password in memory. The next time you open an encrypted file, Royal TS will try if one of the cached passwords will work and will spare you the password prompt.

The check box “Remember this Password”, which is checked by default, allows you to control whether you want to cache this password or not.

For security reasons, the cache will not work when you want to edit an encrypted document. Editing a document also allows you to change the password for a document (or remove password protection), therefore, Royal TS will always prompt for the document password in that case.

The Password Cache lives in the RTSApp.exe process, so as soon as you quit your Royal TS instance the cache will be cleared.

One more thing: I also create a Facebook page for Royal TS, so if anyone is interested to join: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Royal-TS/237851900921

cheers,
Stefan