> On Nov 14, 2016, at 7:23 AM, Ulrich Telle <ulrich.te...@gmx.de> wrote: > > The RSA encryption offered by System.Data.SQLite should not be used, if > security is a concern for you. You should prefer an AES encryption scheme.
I’m surprised anything encrypts databases with RSA, as that algorithm is pretty unsuitable for file encryption. It’s an asymmetric (public-key) cipher: you encrypt data with an RSA public key, which can then only be decrypted by the owner of the matching private key. (This is used by email encryption, for example.) Or you can sign data with the private key so that it can be verified by anyone who has the public key. Neither of these modes is useful for securing a file that you are going to use yourself. Moreover, RSA is extremely slow. File encryption uses a symmetric-key cipher, of which AES is the most common up-to-date one. Both SQLite’s own encryption engine and the 3rd party SQLCipher use AES. —Jens _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
