>I am using the West Wind classes for an Internet Application I am developing. I need to strongly encrypt dbf files across the Internet. PGP would work fine but the licensing costs for it are prohibitive. Each user would have to have a server licence (for scripting) at $2400.
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>I am not sure about licencing requirements for the crypto api and am not sure how to use VFP with it. Is there a VFP wrapper class available for it? If not there certainly is a need for it.
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>Streaming the data through HTTPS is not an option as some of the databases exceed 50,000+ records.
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>If someone could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Hi Poul.

You could encrypt the files before sending with a product like Xitech then send them with a non-secure protocol like http. Just a thought.