Re: Field encryption

Hi Richard.

If you use Informix, upgrade to version 10 which has built-in SQL functions to
do this.

Regards,
Doug Lawry
www.douglawry.webhop.org

Richard Turner said:

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know of a function/routine to encrypt data in BDL?
> Preferably, I'd like to make use of one of the more popular encryption
> standards in use today.
>
> Basically, I want to let the user key in a text value on a screen form
> then, when they save the record, I want to take the entered data and run
> it through an encryption algorithm.  The encrypted data would be what we
> store in the database.  When the user views this record at a later date,
> we need to do the opposite, take the encrypted value from the database,
> decrypt it, then display the decrypted value on the screen.
>
> Thanks for the info,
>
> Richard


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