I plan to have 3 levels of crypt requirement: disabled, enabled and
required. They will work as follows (on client + server):
   enabled + required => crypt
   enabled + enabled => crypt
   enabled + disabled => raw
   disabled + required => fail
   disabled + disabled => raw
   required + required => crypt
This is more or less typical approach.

What I want to advice - should we have separate crypt level setting for
client and server in firebird.conf? Must say that default crypt level
must be different for client (enabled) and server (required). On server
it's definite security requirement, on client - compromise making it
possible to attach to old servers. And in some cases it may be desired
to set outgoing connections from server to something different than
incoming.

But may be it's just overcomplicated approach and single parameter
CryptLevel is enough?



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