Subject Re: Does the database 'need' encryption?
Author ettotev
--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Alex Peshkoff <peshkoff@...> wrote:
>

> I've already mentioned - we have plans to implement line encryption in
> FB3.0 and may be page level encryption too. We have already decided that
> we provide interface for users' plugins to perform actual crypt
> operations. Right now I'm not ready to think and talk about exact
> interfaces for it due to need to finish with generic interfaces first.
>

An interface for page-level encryption user plug-ins in v3 would be great! Maybe with a simple proof-of-concept implementation of XOR "encryption" ;-)

And SSL/TSL based communication encryption would be also great.

Thanks!