On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Ross Giddings wrote:

A simple way to prevent unauthorized
access to a database is to encrypt
the relevant part of the file header
so that it's not recognized as a db
outside your programme.

Decrypt the header programmatically
inside your app and encrypt it on
closing.

Just be aware that since you are modifying the file on disk anyone can open your database file while it is open in your application or make a copy of it while it is open in your application and then open it whenever they would like (at least with SQLite).

Regards,

--
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
www.bluemangolearning.com    -    www.screensteps.com

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