Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Re: database encryption
Author Sijun Kang
If the "simple encryption plug-in" is what prevents the encryption
functionality from released to public, maybe enlisting developers to work on
that specific task can help. I can help too if necessary (and permitted). :)


2010/11/4 Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd@...>

> 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.
>
> --
> SY, SD.
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