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Creating a Symmetric Key–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on June 2, 2021 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is a series on working with the various encryption technologies in SQL Server. One of the encryption technologies … Continue reading →

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A Basic Encryption Primer for SQL Server

Posted on May 26, 2021 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Encryption is a function call in SQL Server, where we pass in the text to encrypt and a key. … Continue reading →

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Completely Encrypted Data

Posted on December 2, 2020 by way0utwest

I remember reading about, and doing some message exchange, with PGP, in the 90s. At the time I worked in a utility company and my boss and I were interested in whether encryption might be something we should implement. At … Continue reading →

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Encryption Gets Broken All the Time

Posted on April 27, 2020 by way0utwest

There are always researchers and hackers looking to break encryption algorithms. In fact, there are regularly a series of challenges against the very commonly used RSA algorithm. Recently, the RSA-250 challenge was completed with the algorithm being factored, albeit with … Continue reading →

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