Castor oil is a vegetable oil derived from the castor bean seed in its purest form. It is colorless, odorless and tasteless.
Encoding globally available pointers helps protect them from being exploited. The EncodePointer function obfuscates the pointer value with a secret so that it cannot be predicted by an external agent. The secret used by EncodePointer is different for each process. A pointer must be decoded before it can be used.
Encoder - Examples. 1  Software for encoding audio, video, images, or text into standardized formats... 2  A compressor encodes data (e.g., audio/video/images) into a smaller form (see codec) 3  An audio encoder converts analog audio to digital audio signals. 4  A video encoder converts analog video to digital video signals.