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haoxiaoqing1987

I have a client that wishes to encrypt their Access databases. They want to
use the PGP product, but will this cause any problems with access to the
database? At present their databases are used by mulitple people on a shared
network drive.
 
If you encrypt an Access database with PGP, Access will not be able to
open it until it is decrypted (using PGP) back into its original form.

How could it be otherwise? If Access could automagically decrypt a file
that was encypted with PGP, I would give up all my other activities,
and start a "PGP cracking" service - through which I would instantly
become world famous, and make countless millions of dollars!

You can encrypt an Access database with anthing you want to use - PGP,
AES, Uncle Tom's Super Dooper Encryption Scheme, or whatever - but
Access won't be able to open that file, until you decrypt it back into
its original form.

It is theoretically possible that someone could write a Windows
filesystem driver, to perform aditional encryption and decryption "on
the fly" specifically for MS Access database files - but I don't think
that is what you are talking about, here.

HTH,
TC
 
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