Hi Adam,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I am just wanting to encrypt some records (or sometimes only certain
columns in a table) and not the whole database.

Are there any UDFs out there that provide encryption support? How secure
would this be though since I am using an embedded FB database?

Cheers,
Diego

>-- Original Message --
>To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
>From: "Adam" <s3057043@...>
>Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 03:08:25 -0000
>Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Encryption support?
>Reply-To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
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>Hi Diego,
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>There are several options, and it really depends on what you are
>after. There are third party products that encrypt an entire volume
>if you are after protecting the entire database. As has been
>discussed here before, it is pretty pointless putting encryption in
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>My guess though is that you are trying to hide their password etc.
>You can put this functionality inside a UDF if you want to do it in
>the database itself. By the way, if you are only using it for
>passwords, then you do not need a reversible encryption, a simple
>implementation of SHA-1 is more than sufficient, and not too hard to
>come by either.
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>Adam
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>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Diego Barros" <diego@h...>
>wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> I was wondering whether FB had any support for encryption of data?
>I could
>> not find anything, so for the time being I have been encrypting and
>decrypting
>> fields as I read/write them in my code. Any other options?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Diego
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