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Re: Encrypting a data field

From: Saad Ahmad <saad.ahmad_at_mchugh.com>
Date: 5 May 1998 14:28:06 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd7832$08116ea0$2207030a@sahmad-pc.mfa.com>


Could you elaborate?

Nancy Whitney <whitney_at_apk.net> wrote in article <6in55e$n21$1_at_nerd.apk.net>...
> "joachim Carlsson" <IKEA-joachim.carlsson_at_neurope.ikea.com> wrote:
>
> >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?
>
Received on Tue May 05 1998 - 09:28:06 CDT

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