> USE THIRDPARTY MUST PAYOUT MONEY AND FACE OPTION
> LIMITED USER VERSION,

Perhaps. I must admit that I did not find any free encryption
software (suitable to my requirements) during my last eval. I found
references to some that were supposed to be free, but they had been
discontinued and the software incorporated into a commercial product.

Thats not to say free softare of this type does not exist, only that
I did not find it :-)

The worthwhile algorithms for encryption are freely available in
various languages - but that is the nature of the beast.


As a gross generalisation I would say that database encryption
generally means you have something of value to protect. It does not
seem unreasonable to expect to pay some (often only small) amount
towards protecting that value. (I did say it was a generalisation :-)

> IF FIREBIRD BUILD IN DATABASE ENCRYPTION, THERE ARE
> GREAT FEATURES

For my own purposes I do not see any value. I have other data that
I want encrypted (not just databases) and so I would need alternative
software anyway. I prefer to choose the one effective solution to
this problem.


Obviously all IMHO of course :-)

--
Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing