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RE: dbms_obfuscation package

From: Rachel Carmichael <carmichr_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:49:55 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002D4287.20010321154531@fatcity.com>

thanks.. I'll try this as well

>From: Vadim Gorbounov <vgorbounov_at_simplyengineering.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: dbms_obfuscation package
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:37:20 -0800
>
> Hi Rachel,
>I believe, this is bug. I had the same problem, workaround is to create
>stored procedure wrapper, not use
>dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.desencrypt in anonymous block.
> Another important note - both key and data lengths should be
>multiples of 8.
>
> hope this helps
>
> Vadim Gorbounov
> Oracle DBA
>
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>
>
>help! I am by no means the world's best PL/SQL programmer (heck, I can
>barely program in it, PL/SQL 101 is on my desk at home)
>
>I am trying to see how hard it would be to add encryption to sensitive data
>in our database, so I'm playing with DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT.
>
>I created a table:
>SQL> desc test_encrypt
>Name Null? Type
>------------------------------- -------- ----
>COL1 VARCHAR2(10)
>COL2 VARCHAR2(10)
>
>and wrote a quick and dirty PL/SQL anonymous block:
>
>begin
>declare
> encrypted_str varchar2(10);
> inp_string varchar2(10);
>
> begin
> inp_string := '123456';
>dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.desencrypt(inp_string,'lksdjfasljf',encrypted_str);
> insert into test_encrypt values (inp_string,encrypted_str);
> commit;
> end;
>end;
>/
>
>when I run this, I get the following error:
>
> dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.desencrypt
>(inp_string,'lksdjfasljf',encrypted_str);
> *
>ERROR at line 7:
>ORA-06550: line 7, column 6:
>PLS-00307: too many declarations of 'DESENCRYPT' match this call
>ORA-06550: line 7, column 6:
>PL/SQL: Statement ignored
>
>
>now, I KNOW that they overload the procedure, they say so in the
>dbmsobtk.sql file in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin
>
>but what am I doing wrong that it's not recognizing that I'm using varchar
>not raw and accepting what I input???
>
>Not urgent, but annoying
>
>Rachel
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