Table encryption

If I enable encryption for a table, what kind of encryption is used?

/Magnus

> If I enable encryption for a table, what kind of encryption is used?

The standard encryption - I think that's Blowfish with some standard key. At
this point (with this level of encryption), people can't read your encrypted
files with notepad, but anyone can read 'em with the EM.

If you want it encrypted uniquely, you need to write your own encryption
engine, which basically involves (at its simplest) getting hold of an
existing encryption engine and changing the key to something proprietary.
But, once you add this custom encryption engine to your nxserver.exe, any EM
can still read it, because the nxserver it uses can read it. So you need to
also make access to your nxserver.exe secured.

HTH,

Lauchlan M

Thanks Lauchlan!

/Magnus

"Lauchlan M" <LMackinnon@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:40b43d5e$1@wic040d....
> > If I enable encryption for a table, what kind of encryption is used?
>
> The standard encryption - I think that's Blowfish with some standard key.
At
> this point (with this level of encryption), people can't read your
encrypted
> files with notepad, but anyone can read 'em with the EM.
>
> If you want it encrypted uniquely, you need to write your own encryption
> engine, which basically involves (at its simplest) getting hold of an
> existing encryption engine and changing the key to something proprietary.
> But, once you add this custom encryption engine to your nxserver.exe, any
EM
> can still read it, because the nxserver it uses can read it. So you need
to
> also make access to your nxserver.exe secured.
>
> HTH,
>
> Lauchlan M
>
>

> If you want it encrypted uniquely, you need to write your own
> encryption engine, which basically involves (at its simplest) getting
> hold of an existing encryption engine and changing the key to
> something proprietary. But, once you add this custom encryption
> engine to your nxserver.exe, any EM can still read it, because the
> nxserver it uses can read it. So you need to also make access to your
> nxserver.exe secured.

It should be pointed out that this type of table encryption will fit
single-exe applications very well.

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