Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Re: database encryption
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
04.11.2010 16:19, ettotev wrote:
> I may be dumb, but it seems to me that a simple encryption plug-in would only need three hooks in the embedded engine - one to receive the username and password entered by the user and based on them to initialize the symmetric encryption key; one to handle the request for page read - read and decrypt; and one for page write - encrypt and write to disk. Am I missing so much here?

Yep. You are missing simple stubborn fact: though encryption code in engine is usable,
as Dmitry said, nobody comes with any encryption plugin so far. Neither open-sourced, nor
commercial.

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SY, SD.