Data encryption in Oracle 7.x

2001-05-21 Thread Val_Gamerman/Victoria_Financial . VICTORIA_FINANCIAL
Hello fellow DBA's, I am in a tough situation. I am trying to find an encryption solution for Oracle 7. I know that 8i has DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT, however we don't have 8i :( We are still running 7.3.4 (OS limitations, DOS clients :(. Anyway, did any of you ever have to implement DES

Re: Data encryption in Oracle 7.x

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
Take a look at my article on encryption on Oracle. It can be found at www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util It has some solutions ( such as RC4 ) that can be implemented on Oracle 7. There's also a Blowfish implementation there courtesy of Craig Munday. Keep one thing in mind: encryption via PL/SQL i

RE: Data encryption in Oracle 7.x

2001-05-22 Thread Christopher Spence
Must say, the DBMS_OBFUCSICATION_TOOLKIT is actually quite fast. I would highly agree with Jared's recommendation. I have a few PL/SQL procedures I made that call this package to handle encrypting passwords for logins and such and it works really well. -Original Message- Sent: Monday,