About Industry Encryption Standards

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InterBase encryption supports the use of the following industry encryption standards:
  • Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a 25-year-old industry standard. DES is a weak encryption standard but does not require a license to use.
  • Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) was adopted as a federal standard in 2002. AES enables a larger number of bits with which to scrambled data than DES does. Because AES offers much stronger encryption protection, the United States regulates its export. To address U.S. export regulations, users must obtain an InterBase license to use AES with InterBase. InterBase includes AES in the Server, ToGo and Desktop editions. Please, see About AES for more information about this stardard.

Note: You do not need an AES addon license starting with InterBase XE3 release. InterBase 2009 and InterBase XE required the addon license.

You specify the standard you want to use with InterBase when you create an encryption key. Instructions on how to create the encryption key are provided later in this chapter.

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