On 11/16/2015 05:26 PM, Daniel Rail wrote: > Hi, > > At November 15, 2015, 9:22 AM, Alex Peshkoff wrote: > >>> I >>> see discussions about details but I can't find a basic architecture >>> description, maybe I'm missing some obvious documents? >> There is doc/README.plugins.html but it's very far from ideal. Like >> unfortunately a lot of our documentation... > The documentation should at least give a simple overview and how to > use the plugins, at a minimum. But having good examples, with some > comments in the code can be the additional documentation, on how to > implement the plugin. We're looking at developing our own dbcrypt > plugin, but the sample files that are included in the RC1 Windows zip > file are not enough for me. The sample files are just 3 .cpp files. > Two of those files I can figure out what they are for(DbCrypt.cpp and > CryptKeyHolder.cpp), but what is CryptApplication.cpp used for. If > there would be a compilable example, then I would most likely know > where they belong, and to have some comments describing the functions > in the source code, would go a long way.
Great sorry for having it not compilable. I will add it to the regular build in order to avoid such troubles in release. What about functionality: it demonstrates one way to pass encryption key to firebird engine and also can perform according to the switch 'alter database encrypt/decrypt'. You may get it here: https://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/HEAD/tree/firebird/trunk/examples/dbcrypt/CryptApplication.cpp?format=raw > Since FB3.0 will not have a DbCrypt plugin released with it, then it > does become important to have a proper example that is compilable, > even it does not include any encryption algorithm. This should give a > good starting point for anybody who wishes to create their own dbcrypt > plugin. > Certainly, you are absolutely right. Thanks for finding a bug in RC1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine for big data, initially developed by Facebook, enables you to easily query your data on Hadoop in a more interactive manner. Teradata is also now providing full enterprise support for Presto. Download a free open source copy now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=250295911&iu=/4140 Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
