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>>>>Just saying it works. Not offering opinion on crypto strength or appropriate, or not, applications.
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>>>You're right about Cryptor doing what it was advertised to do and do it very well. I wasn't a happy camper when the PA-DSS auditors wouldn't buy off on the encryption algorithm (hackable, albeit with effort) because Cryptor was a piece of cake and I could encrypt everything, and I mean everything, with the greatest of ease.
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>>>Oh well, OTOH, by the time I finished with the acceptable alternatives I had become quite the encryption expert I never wanted to be.
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>>Although expensive this is a powerful product which offers simple and virtually seamless encryption of files, tables, etc:
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>>http://www.netlib.com/file-encryption.asp
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>Their pricing of $500 per desktop made it unsuitable for widely distributed software with a few thousand installations. I went settled with an ActiveX component and did field level encryption. Total cost was probably $200 for the third party software and a lot of programming, but still far cheaper than Netlib's alternative.

I believe it's $50 per desktop but, yes, still expensive.