Re: [Firebird-devel] User password for encryption

2016-04-25 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
25.04.2016 17:03, Alex Peshkoff wrote: > Unlike other methods key in this case is not touched by open source code > making possibility of stealing it much smaller. It doesn't matter if engine will decrypt whole database for you after changing couple of bytes in header. Key is pointless, da

Re: [Firebird-devel] User password for encryption

2016-04-25 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 04/25/2016 03:51 PM, Emil Totev wrote: >> From: Alex Peshkoff >> Subject: Re: [Firebird-devel] User password for encryption >> To: firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Message-ID: <571e0924.3010...@mail.ru> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-125

Re: [Firebird-devel] User password for encryption

2016-04-25 Thread Emil Totev
> From: Alex Peshkoff > Subject: Re: [Firebird-devel] User password for encryption > To: firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <571e0924.3010...@mail.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > On 04/25/2016 11:28 AM, Emil To

Re: [Firebird-devel] User password for encryption

2016-04-25 Thread Alex Peshkoff
On 04/25/2016 11:28 AM, Emil Totev wrote: > How difficult would it be to get the user password to the encryption / > key holder plugin, especially for an embedded connection? I will start from the most simple part - embedded connection. As far as I understand you ask about password which is used

[Firebird-devel] User password for encryption

2016-04-25 Thread Emil Totev
How difficult would it be to get the user password to the encryption / key holder plugin, especially for an embedded connection? If possible at all, would this require new authentication plugin or key holder plugin or both? Applications using embedded connections would benefit most from database