> Claudio, the main problem here is in data transmission inside a company.
> Having been working on security aspects of a project for quite some time
> (you do get to be paranoid) I know the kind of damage clear text data
> transfer over the net can cause.

Time to introduce IPSec. Or SSH. Or any other secure transport protocol.

Databases should do what they are good at: managing data.
Transport layers should do what they are good at: reliable transport, when
possible/needed without people peeking.

Maybe (just maybe), now that export regulations WRT security are getting
less strict, one might add SSL ability to the interbase server and client
(like apache now supports HTTP over SSL too).

--jeroen