Paradox database encryption

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2 total messages Started by kellmeyer steven l Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:30

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Author: kellmeyer steven l
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:30

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I am planning on using Borland's Paradox for storing information of 
a highly personal nature (part of our expanding net will soon be
linking in a counseling center).  Does anyone know if the security
level of this software is reasonably good?  I don't expect it to
stand up to a really devious hack, but I'd like to be able to assure
the client (the counseling center director) that Paradox encryption
schemes will keep out 99.9% of intruders (it's a big campus, so one
in 1000 may really be a little low, but you get the idea). 

I know from reading this group that WordPerfect encryption is easily
defeated, so I'll warn him about that.  We are also considering Foxpro,
since they claim to be coming out with encryption capabilities for
their database.  I know I could ask the companies themselves, but I
tend to doubt that I would get an unbiased opinion of the utility of
their encryption schemes :)

I already downloaded PGP 2.0, and would love to see a windowed front-end
for it (the counselors who would need to use it would be easily confused
by UNIX-like switch options).  

Any help on any of these issues would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks.

Steve Kellmeyer
kellmeye@ux1.uiuc.edu
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Steve Kellmeyer 
kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

Re: Paradox database encryption

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Author: Peter Gutmann
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:22

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In <Bv7Fr8.F5p@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:

>I am planning on using Borland's Paradox for storing information of 
>a highly personal nature (part of our expanding net will soon be
>linking in a counseling center).  Does anyone know if the security
>level of this software is reasonably good?

Appallingly bad.  If you....

>I already downloaded PGP 2.0

Ah, I see you've already got it.  grep for 'Paradox' in part 1 of the docs for
a whole list of commercial packages whose encryption can be broken in a fraction
of a second.  Paradox is one of them.

Peter.
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