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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.
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>>I believe it's $50 per desktop but, yes, still expensive.
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>Craig Boyd has made some encryption functions freely available in an FLL: http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/SPSBlog/2009/08/09/MajorVFPEncryptionUpdate.aspx

It's not my thread Al, but the thing with products like Cryptor and NetLib etc is that they plug into your existing app and read/write the encrypted DBF\DBC\etc file without requiring code changes to speak off. Minimal code required to load, activate the library is about all that is required.

Encryption tools are a dime a dozen - I like the ones from Chilkat myself. But that requires recoding lots of things if you want to start encrypting your data files. Whole disk file encryption is simplicity.