I have written a simple membership system for a local charity. The data is held in a dbc with about 10 tables. I have been advised that to conform to the UK Data Protection Act I should be encrypting the sensitive personal data which I take to mean the file containing the names and addresses, members.dbf. I have never done anything like this before so am stumbling a bit :-)
I intend to use VFPEncryption71.fll. The way I propose to use it is to encrypt the members.dbf file initially outside the program and give it a suitable name then delete members.dbf. In the main.prg, before the dbc is opened I will decrypt the encrypted file to a file called members.dbf which the dbc will use. In the shutdown I will delete the old encrypted file, re-encrypt members.dbf then delete members.dbf. I would welcome comments on my proposed strategy. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
