--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd@...> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Well, all I'm actually asking for is a clearly defined and documented interface for the disk encryption plug-in.

I remember reading about the "current solution" some time ago, but can't find it again. Could someone please point me to some documentation?

Emil