Re: Quran Applications: getting it certified

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

On Friday 27 February 2004 08:48, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- ahmad khalifa <ahmadkhalifa at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> > >  2. A completed release of the Quran application so that we
> > >     can start the long and arduous process to get it certified
> > >     (we have 2 possible avenues to proceed with now).
> >
> > well, i asked a friend whose mother works at a school "Tabe3a" to
> > AlAzhar AlShareef... in Egypt the highest Islamic Authority is AlAzhar
> > AlShareef.. she said you just take it to "Dar El Efta" to get certified..
> > i'd happily do that, if i can put it on CD, which i beleive is not ready
> > yet...
>
> Great, although M.Yousif had noted that he wasn't able to get anything
> accomplished there - another try won't harm anyone.  Now we just need
> a release to package and burn onto a CD to get the ball(s) rolling.
>

 That's interesting.
 I only tried with "Mashiakhat Al-Azhar" and Al-Azhar University but I
 didn't approach "Dar Al-Efta'a". I certainly want to do this myself
 if it's really possible.

> > >  4. Please start a thread on 'developer' to talk about how the
> > >     data integrity will be insured (md5sum, gpg, etc) so that
> > >     the Quran application will ONLY work with authentic data
> > >     given all of this is open source, etc.
> >
> > well, i took a look at one Quran CD i had, and the formats are just Wav
> > and bmp... the sound of the Shiekh Reading is in Wave, one Wave file for
> > each "Aya",  and all files named according to the Soura and Aya, like for
> > example "Goz2 1" /G01/S1A1.wav   <--thats Soura 1, aya 1..
> > and the Quran Text is Stored as an image file, just 1 big image file,
> > about 65 MB... its not a bmp though, and not compressed in any way, its
> > just a format they invented could easily be cracked, if you give it a
> > couple of hours... and one more file, its a text file, its a list of 4
> > numbers per line, space separated... 1 line for each "Aya", and 3 other
> > numbers, im guessing they describe where the text belonging to this aya
> > is on the big image file, because, each aya thats being read is shown in
> > red...
>
> Yeah, what they have doesn't really concern us - the data files we will be
> using are plain UTF-8 text and as such we need to be clever about how the
> data will be protected and how to insure that the application will only
> function with said authenticated data.
>
> Mohammed.Yousif, do please let us know what you have in mind for those
> looking to work on this (at last count there were about 3 people).
>

 There have been some problems with the project (again). I think
 the release date will be delayed again.