>>>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?
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>>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)?
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>>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.
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>Hi Jos,
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>Protection is needed (encryption) because of the following possibilities.
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>If an angry employee leaves one of my customers I don't want that person to have acces to the data of the enterprise.
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>If someone copies the app from my client's computer I don't want that person to have an easy access to the data.
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>So I guess that basic encryption would be enough.


1) How many sites are you talking about?

2) How much time would coding field level encryption/decryption take i.e. this becomes a money question.

3) How big is the data file that needs to be encrypted? i.e. the file that holds the sensitive data.