Posted by Volker Hetzer on 12/06/06 12:21

Erland Sommarskog schrieb:
> Volker Hetzer (firstname.lastname@ieee.org) writes:
>> Erland Sommarskog schrieb:
>>> Actually, we had this sort of a problem with one of our customers, and
>>> we developed a very cheesy low-budget solution. To our defense, I should
>>> add that it was the customer's own idea.
>> Out of curiosity, what would the high-budget solution have looked like?
>
> The initial idea was to use the new encryption facilities in SQL 2005,
> but I do not really like that, since it would require the users to work
> with multiple passwords.
Hm. One could have /one/ password for the set of authorized users,
encrypted for each user separately, with the users normal password.
Then the user (or his program anyway) could look up the encrypted
password for the user and decrypt it with the users password.

Lots of Greetings!
Volker
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