Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Encryption
Author Hannes Streicher
Guten Tag Emil Totev,

am Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2009 um 08:43 schrieben Sie:


> I remember seeing somewhere a suggestion that Firebird could
> already support page-level encryption by two user-defined functions
> to encode the page before writing it and decode it after reading. I
> guess this is the way to go without losing any engine functionality.
> Please if anyone has better memories or actual knowledge, comment on this.

i may be way off here , but :
Firebird is using RunLengthEncoding to store Data on Disk and retrieve it , so by
just replacing the RLE Code with an encryption/Decryption algorithm you are up
and running ,

"only" problem left will be Key Management



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