Jim Starkey wrote: > Sorry, if you had been paying attention, you would have > noticed that the key comes from a database parameter block > parameter. Really, understand first, then shoot.
So? If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed that I didn't single key management out as the only factor. Indeed, why bother with the encryption aspect at all? It's simply unnecessary and redundant at this point - which was my fundamental point. If the aim is to avoid needing new DLL etc., then take your DPB idea and make it a boolean "save source" option. When an application builds their database for distribution, or when they login to apply updates to a customer database, they make sure to set this option in their connection string and away they go. -- Geoff Worboys Telesis Computing Pty Ltd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
