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From: "Andrew Protasov" <protasov@percombank.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: Can you encrypt a column value in Oracle?
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 13:58:52 +0300
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Hi Sean,

You can easily encrypt application passwords in OCI or Pro C application.
We use MD5 to encrypt PIN codes to non-decryptable form. Use encryption
algorithm you want.

Andrew Protasov

Sean Dolan wrote in message ...
>    I am trying to put a user's password in a table called USER_INFO in a
column called PASSWORD... is there a way to have that value encrypted so
that I can;t see the user's password? (but rather an encrypted garble)... I
am on Oracle 7.3.4.
>
>Thanks,
>Sean Dolan
>Senior Systems Engineer