Kbase P22900: Is it possible to encrypt data in a Progress database.
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
11/20/2009 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
Is it possible to encrypt data in a Progress database.
FIX:
Progress does not provide any tool that will transparently encrypt data when written to disk, or decrypt it on its way back into memory.
You will have to resort to some OS-level utilities, or (probably better) hardware encryption.
Starting with OpenEdge 10, we provide symmetric encryption as part of the 4GL, so that sensitive data can be encrypted before being written into a record, and then it can be decrypted when the record is read back from the database. However, there still is no methodology at the database level that provides transparent encryption of all data in the database itself.