Long Private Key Strings

New topic branched from here http://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community?ftid=2266000000321064

Long private key strings are meant for private sharing of individual components to very large number of users. Here you also run the risk of the keys being shared to unknown users and if they are, then you have no control over it, unless you choose to either regenerate it or revert it. We would advise you not to use them in the application logic in the first place. Instead we recommend you to use the authorization module of Zoho Creator (i.e via shared users)

Charles,

This is unfortunately impossible for my organization. The PTO I'm assisting was charged with collecting personal contact information from a large community of parents and students. As this information can by dynamic (emails change, students move up to new grade levels, etc) we wanted to let parents access their own "personal page" to edit their contact information. We need to protect this contact information as the school district has a policy not to disclose this data. Accordingly, each parent should only see his own data, and only after a login type process.

The application I built implements a custom login process outside Zoho, due to the 5 user threshold. Parents access their page via stateless forms with a user-name+password combination appending to the URL strings. And so, my application must be private and must employ the very long private key strings. It works, but it's not something I could place on the marketplace due to the non-portability of the very long private key strings.

But I am open to suggestions.