Quote - It's a bit of a pain, but fortunately you only need to do it once.   Hopefully someone will cook up a better RTE system in the future that's a bit more bulletproof.   (For example, RTE has a hard time if DAZ changes the base file even a little bit because the deltas were computed very specific from the file used during the encode process.)

Unfortunately it has to work that way, as using any other type of encryption wouldn't achieve the objective of making sure you have the original base geometry, and there's not much that can be done if authors don't keep up with the latest variant.