>I guess that buying Chilkat would be a good move. I need a good encryption tool to encrypt fields
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>The thing is that there are so many options in that Chilkat library that I'm wondering which function would be preferable to use.
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>The data encrypted will have accentuated characters.
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>What do you suggest?

Denis, what are you trying to protect (physically what i.e. a DBF, a field in a DBF, etc), what is the value of the data (this goes to the lengths and costs you are prepared to accept), from who do you wish to achieve protection (end-users or experienced hackers)?

In other words, unless you clearly to define what the encryption is for, and against who you need it, you may be chasing the wrong solution.