Encryption options on Define Files and Encode/Decpde

[Richard Kreiss]

Nancy,

As I said earlier, you would need to encrypt the field that need to be protected. It will not be affected by the file encryption. 

Richard
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> On Sep 6, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Bill Randall via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
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> That is all correct, yes.
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>> On 9/6/2018 11:49 AM, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Bill,
>> 
>> So if I encrypt the entire file, I can see the data on the screen, I can do look ups, I can generate reports with the data. But if I try to look at the contents of the key file directly it will be unreadable.  But if an index is built on protected data the index information is not encrypted.
>> 
>> Do I have that right?
>> 
>> Nancy
>> 
>>> On 9/6/2018 6:09 AM, fP sales wrote:
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>>> I suspect you mistakenly changed the first Option (password) instead of the second Option (encryption)
>>> A lookup to an encrypted file does NOT ask for a password.
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
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>>>> On 9/5/2018 5:31 PM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:
>>>> Encryption works well on a file.  The issue with the encryption is that if you have lookups to a file that is encrypted, the program asks for the password - encryption key each time filePro tries to access that file.
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