Re: Encrypting a data field

From: joachim Carlsson <IKEA-joachim.carlsson_at_neurope.ikea.com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:30:42 +0200
Message-ID: <6ikckb$d3m$1@mailgate.ikea.com>

There is (almost) no reason to encrypt the passwords. Since when you have broken into the operatingsystem you can allways break into oracle if you want to. If you can logon to machine with the database you can get onto oracle without two many minutes of trouble.

You know that you can steel the password from any oracle user in unix system within a few secs?

Regards
/Joachim

Nancy Whitney wrote in message <354B1500.1CA6734E_at_apk.net>...
>Is there a way to encrypt a data field in Oracle (ver. 7.2.3)? It is
>running on UNIX for now, but we will run similar applications on NT soon
>so if I use an external utility, it has to be something that runs on
>both platforms.
>
>I called Oracle but they didn't know... still, there has to be something
>I can do. The application is one that has usernames and passwords stored
>in a table. It is the password field I need to encrypt.
>
>Any ideas will be *greatly* appreciated.
>
>Nancy
Received on Mon May 04 1998 - 07:30:42 CDT