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 [email protected] on 02-07-2001 at 04:54 PM]