Jim Starkey wrote: > Problem: How to start server on encrypted database files > with a human to supply a password. ...
At the risk of emphasising my prejudice in favour of using specialised products to manage encrypted volumes, have you looked at how products like VeraCrypt (fork from TrueCrypt) handles this sort of thing? In particular look at the way it uses Keyfiles https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Keyfiles%20in%20VeraCrypt It's relatively simple and flexible, and has been around for a long while. It has the advantage (and disadvantage) of being as secure as the user cares to make it. -- Geoff Worboys Telesis Computing Pty Ltd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel