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Old 10-25-05, 22:19
Alan Tse Alan Tse is offline
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Encryption

Anyway to encrypt the data in the MySQL 4.1 by setting the database server ?
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Old 10-28-05, 06:16
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My understanding is that there are no MySQL server configuration options to do this. MySQL only offers functions to store encrypted data within table fields. See:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/...functions.html
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