Hello, Ed!

>which 3rd party tool could I look at?

I) Client side encryption

A. Database -> User

1) Database with partial crypted data (full encryption for all data -
very slowly and we forget SQL advantages)
2) GetData into ClientDataSet (as example) and decrypt data on
clientside (can be based on any password based algorithm)
3) Show for user etc...
B. User -> Database
1) encrypt data on client side
2) put data into database

II) Traffic encrypt/decrypt

III) Try rewrite or update IBO source and add encryption/decription
capabilites ;))))

WBR,Dmitry Beloshistov AKA [-=BDS=-]