05.11.2010 16:06, Jim Starkey wrote:

> Um, that's not a terribly clever interface.

Did you expect anything better from Borland guys?..

> Also, the output size isn't the same as the input size. DES rounds up
> to an eight byte boundary, AES to 16 bytes. How is the called to know
> what to expect?

And this is another reason why page-level encryption is useless crap. We have page size
rounded to kilobyte to get the best i/o performance. 16 additional bytes will kill OS i/o
subsystem.

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SY, SD.