encrypt credit card details within SQL 2000/2005

Hi, I am hoping someone could shed some light on encrypting columns within
database tables.
What I need to do is encrypt the credit card field of a sql table. What is
the best way of going about this? This doesnt seem to be well documented.
Any help most appreciated.
Cheers, PeterSQL Server 2000 does not provide encryption functionality out of the
box, you will have to either do this on the client and sending the
already encrypted data to the server or send the data to the server
(you will have to be aware of man-in-the-middle attacks and consider
protocol encryption for securing this) and encrypt it either using
your own encryption algorythm or any other third party procedure
(often xp_s) to do this. SQl Server 2005 intriduced a new encryption
functionalty, based on either certificates or passphrases, not to
extened this explanation further you can read a lot about that in the
BOL or on the internet.
HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--|||For SQL 2005 look up the built-in T-SQL Encryption functionality in BOL.
For SQL 2000, either do it client-side as Jens suggested, or get some
utility XP's like this:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/col...oolkitpart1.asp
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> Hi, I am hoping someone could shed some light on encrypting columns within
> database tables.
> What I need to do is encrypt the credit card field of a sql table. What is
> the best way of going about this? This doesnt seem to be well documented.
> Any help most appreciated.
> Cheers, Peter
>