>>Does anyone have a simple example of encrypting and de-encrypting a Foxpro dbf?
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>I've used an older version of Cryptor (
http://www.xitech-europe.co.uk/cryptor5.php) successfully. As Tore says it does make maintenance a little more difficult but I don't think there's a noticeable performance penalty. And as Thomas points out it is not *too* difficult to crack - but that depends on how hard someone is going to try :-}
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>That said, the app has been out there with ~3k users for the last 10 years and I don't recall any database problems (corruption etc) which could be attributed to its use.
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>The version I used also allowed encryption of individual fields rather than whole tables if required - but I don't see that mentioned in the current version.
Thanks Viv - the tables I want to encrypt are things like user permissions table, so speed is not really an issue
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