Re: Encryption routine in PL/SQL

Did you consider upgrading to Oracle8?
It has advanced password management system, with full expiry and re-use control.

Seva

Jon Osborne wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got to write a security subsystem for an Oracle application I'm
> developing in Forms 4.5. Oracle's security requirements are not
> stringent enough as regards things such as password expiry and reuse.
> So we have to build this ourselves.
>
> The only thing I'm struggling with is the concept that all our passwords
> MUST be only held in encrypted form in our own password table. So we
> need a reliable encrpytion routine that we can call when supplied with
> the user's unencrypted password. Does anyone know of such a thing that
> I can graft into my form?
>
> Many thanks, Jon.
Received on Mon Jul 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT