Sijun Kang wrote:

> [...]
> Please, please, please! Please be noted that not everybody
> tries to use encryption where obscurity is the need, encryption
> does serve it's own serious purpose, Stop changing topic!

I am not at all certain I understand your concern here. Wasn't
it you that gave the example of wanting to stop information from
being indexed by friendly programs like local search engines?
You don't need encryption to achieve that, so obscuration does
have potential relevance to some of what we discussed. (It's
much cheaper than encryption for a start.)

As for the rest ... well we've covered it I think:

I think that (system) volume encryption is a better, easier and
more comprehensive solution than database encryption - and it's
available now in various forms, many of which have very good
reputations. To my logic this makes work on a lesser solution
(encryption of just the database file) something of a very low
priority - and arguably a complete waste of time.

As far as I can tell you don't necessarily disagree with the
first part of the previous paragraph, you simply believe that
there is some useful niche for database file encryption. I'm
not convinced, but then I'm not a core developer so I'm not the
one you need to convince.

Good luck with it.

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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing