--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Roman Rokytskyy <roman@...> wrote:

>
> >And last but not least - most competing products already have these
>
> Sorry, could you please post links to the documentation to those products where the page level encryption and wire protocol encryption are described?
>
> I only know of AES encrypt/decrypt functions in MySQL and the encryption of the field data in Oracle/MS SQL (which use completely different approach)...
>

Well, one issue is to define "competing products" ;-)

First come to the mind, especially for the embedded model, MS Access and Excel, which do have file level encryption.

MySQL doesn't have file encryption, but does have SSL support:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/secure-connections.html

Same seems to be the case with PostgreSQL:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ssl-tcp.html

Then come MSSQL, which has both:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb934049%28v=SQL.100%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189067%28v=SQL.90%29.aspx

... and DB2:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sec.doc/doc/c0005815.html
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sec.doc/doc/c0005815.html

... and Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/advanced-security/index.html