dbms_obfuscation_toolkit input length

Hi,

I'm trying to encrypt columns in 8.1.7 using the dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.desencrypt function, which requires a multiple of 8 bytes as input. If the input contains only characters in the US7ASCII charset, I can pad it to the correct length, so there is no problem. But whenever I try to encrypt something containing special characters like the german 'ä,ö,ü', the package complains about invalid input length. This happens with a database charset of iso8859p1 or utf-8. Is there any chance to handle this?

Thanks,
Hanne Received on Mon Feb 18 2002 - 09:42:09 CST