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Re: RSA decryption in Oracle 9i

From: Pouria <pourias_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:40:24 -0700
Message-ID: <1182897624.605728.246080@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>


thanks for the links. it seems the DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT and DBMS_CRYPTO support symmetric cryptographic algorithms. Do you know of any support for asymmetric algorithms such as RSA?

On Jun 25, 10:50 am, Brian Peasland <d..._at_nospam.peasland.net> wrote:
> Pouria wrote:
> > Hi Frank,
>
> > Thanks for the reply. My understanding is that
> > DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT supports DES encryption only (and not RSA).
> > Am I correct in saying this? If so are you aware of any alternatives?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Pouria
>
> It does support more than DES, but does not support RSA. Any reason why
> this is the encryption scheme that you must use? Personally, I could
> care less how the data is encrypted so long as it is secure. Triple DES
> should do that nicely.
>
> The DBMS_CRYPTO package in Oracle 10g does offer more encryption options
> than what is previously available. You will need to upgrade though. Here
> is more information on DBMS_CRYPTO:
>
> http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d...
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>
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Received on Tue Jun 26 2007 - 17:40:24 CDT

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