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Re: Encrypting data before storing in columns

From: Greg Stark <greg-spare-1_at_mit.edu>
Date: 2000/03/31
Message-ID: <87bt3ukha5.fsf@HSE-MTL-ppp43091.qc.sympatico.ca>#1/1

Thomas J. Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com> writes:

> In article <8bu4fc$41b$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> logo_palanisamy_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > Does Oracle have a way to encrypt data before storing it in varchar2
> > table columns? Is there any better way than using a combination of
> > replace, translate functions?
> > What we want is to encrypt the application user password and store it
> > in a not easy to decipher form.

Why not encrypt it in the application?

-- 
greg
Received on Fri Mar 31 2000 - 00:00:00 CST

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