Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle:77578 comp.databases.oracle.misc:55303 comp.databases.oracle.tools:41271 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!newsfeed.concentric.net!newsfeed.ozemail.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!not-for-mail From: "Tom Zamani" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.tools Subject: Re: encrypt credit card number Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:47:25 +1100 Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au Pty. Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <8as6ql$235$1@perki.connect.com.au> References: X-Trace: perki.connect.com.au 953261717 2149 203.63.133.169 (17 Mar 2000 02:55:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@connect.com.au NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Mar 2000 02:55:17 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 No there is not such thing in Oracle for Grneral Usage. You need to hav your Own Encryption method. One of the Encryption methods that I have worked with was Triple Des which is not bad. Using external procedure call, Oracle could call a C program which would encrypt the passed string, and would return the result to Oracle. Tom Anupam Bordia wrote in message news:vOfA4.619$u44.32714@news.pacbell.net... > Is there a built-in command in oracle which helps me encrypt the credit card > number stored in oracle database? I tried searching for "encrypt" in ORACLE > guide but was not successful. Any thoughts would be very helpful. > > Thanks a lot for your time. > > > >