Encrpyting Microsoft Access databases

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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.
 
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.
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What's a PGP?
 
Access will not be able to open the database at all, if it is encrypted
with PGP.

That's like saying, "I want to put olive oil into my petrol tank. Will
my car still run ok?" :-)

HTH,
TC
 
Jesper,

PGP is a 3rd party encryption package. PGP state that it will encrypt MS
access databases, but I have doubts if it will work. Other answers to the
post seem to confirm this.
 
TC,

Thanks that confirms my suspicions. PGP state it will work, but I think that
the database may be be encrypted, but no one will be able to access it. Which
defeats the object really.
 
The only encryption that Access can handle "natively", is its own. That
is basicaly 32-bit RC4. Perhaps the PGP folks meant that you could
encrypt a database with PGP, send it to someone else, then the
recipient could /decrypt/ it with PGP before they started using it?

Cheers,
TC
 
It could certainly encrypt them. They are just another file. PGP can
encypt /any/ file. But Access would not be able to open or run them,
until they were decrypted.

HTH,
TC
 
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