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From: "Saad Ahmad" <saad.ahmad@mchugh.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Encrypting a data field
Date: 5 May 1998 14:28:06 GMT
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Could you elaborate?

Nancy Whitney <whitney@apk.net> wrote in article
<6in55e$n21$1@nerd.apk.net>...
> "joachim Carlsson" <IKEA-joachim.carlsson@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?
>