>>>>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.
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>1) How many sites are you talking about?
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>2) How much time would coding field level encryption/decryption take i.e. this becomes a money question.
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>3) How big is the data file that needs to be encrypted? i.e. the file that holds the sensitive data.

Why those questions?

Do you have something to suggest depinding on the answers given?

Number of sites is not important. Customers need it and they will get it. Time needed shouldn't be that big a deal. It's just a small percentage of data that will be encrypted. Data is not very big.