Perhaps you could do the encryption in the client instead of the database. Here is a package for Delphi which does several types of encryption:
http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/cryptography.html


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From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Carlos Arguilar
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 4:04
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RES: [firebird-support] Encryption

I am using Windows 2k/xp. Is this library available for Windows too?
Thanks.
Carlos Arguilar
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De: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]Em nome de Steve Wiser
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 13 de junho de 2005 16:43
Para: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Assunto: Re: [firebird-support] Encryption


If you are using linux try downloading and using
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/FreeUDFLibC-0.8.tar.gz which contains
the function f_encrypt_md5.

-steve

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:37 -0300, Carlos Arguilar wrote:

> Hello All!
>
> I have following problem: I need encrypt/decrypt data of my database
because
> the records content are the core of system. It is a thesaurus database.
I
> have tried to write a UDF based on simple xor function and call it in
the
> Before Insert event through a trigger. The goal would be encrypt this
way
> and after, retrieve the value decrypted through the call the function in
the
> select statement.
>
> Though, it isn't working. The value generated and written on database is
> different than the value generated on the application in Delphi where
the
> function was wrote.
>
> Anyone know a function for perform this?
>
> Any tip?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carlos Arguilar
>
>
>
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