where can I find about the pl/sql encryption toolkit

[bberg@rtnyc.com]

I haven't heard much about it, but we are looking for ways to encrypt the stored data, without a lot of performance impact.

Kinda like how credit card numbers are encrypted in a database, we want to do that to some columns... however these columns WOULD be used in a WHERE clause, and the unencrypted data is what is needed.

Any ideas?


thanks.

[akkerend]

In 8.1.6 you can use package DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT for encryption.
[url]http://otn.oracle.com/doc/oracle8i_816/server.816/a76936/dbms_obf.htm[/url]

[bberg@rtnyc.com]

what's the performance like for encrypted data? (i.e. unencrypting it when selecting it).

If I wanted to sum up a column of numbers (and that column is encrypted), and I do:
select sum (dbms_obfuscation_toolkit.DESDecrypt(input => COL_A, key => raw_key, decrypted_data => decrypted_raw)) from table_A;

will that work? note, COL_A was already encrypted

what's the performance going to be like?

[Edited by bberg@rtnyc.com on 02-07-2001 at 04:54 PM]