[Firebird-devel] Function to generate random bytes

2021-05-23 Thread Mark Rotteveel
I was polishing the Language Reference for Firebird 4.0, and I noticed that we seem to be missing a function to use with ENCRYPT: A function to generate a BINARY (or VARBINARY) of a specified size populated with random bytes (from a secure random number generator). A lot of encryption algorith

Re: [Firebird-devel] Function to generate random bytes

2021-05-23 Thread Leyne, Sean
Mark, > I was polishing the Language Reference for Firebird 4.0, and I noticed that we > seem to be missing a function to use with ENCRYPT: > > A function to generate a BINARY (or VARBINARY) of a specified size populated > with random bytes (from a secure random number generator). A lot of > encr

Re: [Firebird-devel] ODP: Increasing CHAR/VARCHAR max. length to 64KB

2021-05-23 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 22/05/2021 07:20, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > On 22-05-2021 12:03, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: >> 22.05.2021 11:10, Karol Bieniaszewski wrote: >>> And the final conclusion why new API is better then old one as it was >>> accepted and preffered. >> >>    For application development new API isn't better