>I'm looking at the samples provided by MS in the SOLUTION sample app.
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>Some things are not clear though.
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>What about when I encrypt data in a field. What is the space needed because of the encryption?
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>I mean if I have a character field of 10 characters is there additional space needed because of the encryption?
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>Where could I find a white paper or additional help on how to deal with that CRYPT.VCX?


Never used CRYPT.VCX


>I mean if I have a character field of 10 characters is there additional space needed because of the encryption?
In any case your field has to be binary (aka NOCPTRANS)


If you do a block cipher, the field will need to be longer - how much depends on the block size