Alright. Thanks. I've gone with the first idea of opening the database and checking for the 401 error code.
On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 10:32:15 PM UTC-6, Jens Alfke wrote: > > > > On Sep 10, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Brendan Duddridge <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > What's the best way to detect if a database file is encrypted? Is it > just a matter of trying to open it up with no key provided? > > Yes. You’ll get a 401 status. (Under the hood, the only way to tell a > SQLCipher database is encrypted is to try to open it and get a > SQLITE_CORRUPT error when SQLite can’t find the header block. There’s no > readable data in an encrypted database file; it looks like pure noise.) > > > You also mentioned somewhere (I've forgotten where now) that there will > be a file created called "encrypted" or something to indicate if a database > file has been encrypted. > > That’s in the attachments directory, to handle some edge cases with > adding/removing encryption. It’s an implementation detail and I’d > discourage using it. > > —Jens -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase Mobile" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mobile-couchbase/fcae1c11-274b-46af-a9be-0b53bb7f60e8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
