Re: [Firebird-devel] Fwd: RC4 for encryption?

2013-05-27 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 05/26/13 19:53, Mark Rotteveel wrote: If I understand it correctly, the new wire encryption of FB 3 uses RC4, an encryption with known attacks and vulnerabilities. Wouldn't it be better to research other options? RC4 is not more than default wire encryption plugin - if you really do not

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fwd: RC4 for encryption?

2013-05-27 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Sun, 26 May 2013 13:36:36 -0400, Jim Starkey j...@jimstarkey.net wrote: From: *Mark Rotteveel* m...@lawinegevaar.nl mailto:m...@lawinegevaar.nl If I understand it correctly, the new wire encryption of FB 3 uses RC4, an encryption with known attacks and vulnerabilities. Wouldn't it be better

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird as backend in LibreOffice.

2013-05-27 Thread Andres Gomez
Hi, a workmate of me and I have started to work on the creation of a SDBC driver for LibreOffice (LibO) based in Firebird. In the long run, the intention is to replace the default HSQLDB driver in LibO. This is our first experience with Firebird, although I used the old Interbase versions from

[Firebird-devel] Problem with Sharp-s character and UNICODE_CI_AI collation

2013-05-27 Thread Stefan Heymann
Try this on a UTF8 database: select case when 'Übergeek' collate unicode_ci_ai like 'ÜB%' collate unicode_ci_ai then '=' else '' end as test_1, case when 'Übergeek' collate unicode_ci_ai like 'üb%' collate unicode_ci_ai then '=' else '' end as test_2, case when 'Fußball' collate

[Firebird-devel] [FB-Tracker] Created: (CORE-4107) wrong resultset (subquery + derived table + union)

2013-05-27 Thread JIRA
wrong resultset (subquery + derived table + union) -- Key: CORE-4107 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4107 Project: Firebird Core Issue Type: Bug Components: Engine

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird as backend in LibreOffice.

2013-05-27 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 05/27/13 15:30, Andres Gomez wrote: Hi, a workmate of me and I have started to work on the creation of a SDBC driver for LibreOffice (LibO) based in Firebird. In the long run, the intention is to replace the default HSQLDB driver in LibO. This is our first experience with Firebird,

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fwd: RC4 for encryption?

2013-05-27 Thread Jim Starkey
On 5/27/2013 3:53 AM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2013 13:36:36 -0400, Jim Starkey j...@jimstarkey.net wrote: Read the fine print. To break a message, you need 2^30 encrypted versions of a message containing a 256 byte constant block starting at a fixed position. Nice theoretical

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fwd: RC4 for encryption?

2013-05-27 Thread Jim Starkey
On 5/27/2013 2:53 AM, Alex Peshkoff wrote: On 05/26/13 19:53, Mark Rotteveel wrote: If I understand it correctly, the new wire encryption of FB 3 uses RC4, an encryption with known attacks and vulnerabilities. Wouldn't it be better to research other options? RC4 is not more than default wire

Re: [Firebird-devel] Fwd: RC4 for encryption?

2013-05-27 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 27-5-2013 17:46, Jim Starkey wrote: On 5/27/2013 3:53 AM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: I initially implemented NuoDB (then NimbusDB) line encryption with 128 bit AES. The performance hit was about 85%, which just wouldn't fly. Substituting RC4 for AIS dropped this to about 4%. As a result, I