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December 20, 2004 06:20 PM

Seamless SQL Server Encryption

Safe, secure savings
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Zewei Song
SQL Server Magazine
InstantDoc ID #44550
The main customer-payment database (SQL Server 2000) at e-Money holds more than 2 million customer records and more than 16 million transaction records. These records contain sensitive credit-card and bank-account information that must be encrypted to protect customers' privacy and the company's property. Implementing an application-side encryption solution would be difficult because it would necessitate the rewrite of more than 50 core applications in ASP, Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6), and .NET. The ...

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This was outerly useless!

Gerair7/28/2006 12:36:56 AM

You discounted Db ecnryption products because you believed they'd break your apps. That you scaled your project back from 50 apps to 1 when you did this yourself certainly validates this complexity.

Might you change your mind if you had it to do over again? FWIW, at least one review (Network Computing's) highlighted this precise issue, actually tried a couple of the products, and came to a very different conclusion: http://nwc.securitypipeline.com/howto/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=18901525&pgno=1


Anonymous User 1/18/2005 3:43:24 PM

An interesting solution to a prevalent requirement - security vs. performance

Regan1/4/2005 4:23:43 AM

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