Re: A simple question since you guys really seem to be knowledgeable

James A. Donald (jamesd@echeque.com)
Thu, 08 Oct 1998 07:51:42 -0700

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t 11:41 PM 10/7/98 -0400, Skylar Highe wrote:
> I have been lurking for months on the CodherPlunks list and
> I have a question for you which probably is way beneath
> your expertise. I would greatly appreciate some
> advice/help. I have been commissioned by my employer to
> write a VB application and store the data in Access97
> database. However, the employer would like me to encrypt
> the data to make it fairly secure and worthless to anyone
> who might get a copy of the database (of course not the
> CodherPlunks caliber of encryption types).

You will find a cryptographic extension to visual basic on my
web site www.jim.com/jamesd/Kong

For your purpose you probably do not need to use public key
stuff, the RC4 stuff should be ample.

    --digsig
         James A. Donald
     6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
     i7P/E4bbMgjn2E61VqoWjJ2n8ccnDHXp30LhTwu/
     4sY0VFXYlJBIyHxZbjsdq4zuZf2q2SadrXlV46/zs

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