Posted by TC on 10/01/81 11:53

Simon Johnson wrote:
> Sav wrote:


> > I'd like to implement something to make it faster so I
> > wondered if there is any MS SQL Server API that would make the
> > cryptography transparent for the application.
>
> Not natively I believe. If you're using SQL Server 2005 you could embed
> an assembly in to the database. This assembly that could do the
> encryption "closer" to the database and doing the encryption here would
> probably allow greater throughput.

The reference that I cited describes various things that are
implemented natively; eg. managing keys, creating certificates,
encrypting & decrypting fields, & so on. Why would you need an external
assembly?

TC (MVP MSAccess)
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