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Re: searching for encrypted fields in data columns

From: David Portas <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas_at_acm.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 02:41:23 +0100
Message-ID: <RfSdnZ8R0vupwe7dRVn-ig@giganews.com> 





> advantage is that no-one knows the key in our binary, only encrypted




Except someone who (legitimately or illegitimately) has the binary and can
therefore hack *any* users password... Or someone who hacks the users
machine... Or hostile code on the users machine... etc, etc.



Use a secure hash for this type of authentication security.


-- 
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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Received on Tue Apr 06 2004 - 20:41:23 CDT












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