[thelist] Encrypting fields in MS Access table

Ed McCarroll Ed at ComSimplicity.com
Thu Jan 12 21:08:44 CST 2006


Ken,

> The problem with encryption is secure key storage (presumably you
> wish to decrypt this stuff, otherwise you'd just using a hashing
> algorithm). If your client is using a shared hosting service, how
> is he/she going to keep the decryption key secure?

This is not a web app.  It's an Access client/server app on a LAN.
The key(s) would be hard-coded into the front-end .MDB, but users
would only have access to an .MDE, which means the code would not
be viewable.

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