Re: Field Level Encryption - Best Practices

Charles Guarino gave a session on this at the Nashville COMMON
Conference a couple of weeks ago, Michael. I've heard the session
before, and I don't recall that he used a shadow/mirror table but,
since, you attended the conference, you could download it from
www.common.org/conferences/sguide/S08/main.htm .

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Michael Ryan wrote:
> Looking for input. Embarking on a project to encrypt certain fields in
> different files. My first thought is to have a shadow file containing
> the encrypted fields, and then having a process to do
> encryption/decryption as needed. I would blank/zero the fields in the
> 'master' file. I was thinking a shadow file because 1. - I wouldn't
> have to change the format of the 'master' file; anmd 2. - I wouldn't
> care about the difference in field length (encrypted/unencrypted).
> Ideas? Thoughts? Thanks!
>

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