On 26-1-2018 15:16, Dimitry Sibiryakov sd@...
[firebird-support] wrote:

> 26.01.2018 13:37, daniel.achermann@... [firebird-support] wrote:
>> One of our customer is interested in the Firebird 3 feature of a "over the wire"
>> connection encryption. This customer however prefers the AES-protocol instead of the
>> default plug in with arc4.
>
> AES can hardly be used for wire encryption because wire block size is not always match
> AES encryption block size and plugin interface does not allow rounding up.

I'd so much prefer if Firebird simply does away with this monstrosity
and use TLS instead...

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel