QUESTION POSED ON: 31 December 2007
We are in the process of encrypting various pieces of sensitive information in our SQL Server 2000 tables. For many fields, we are using Blowfish 448 encryption and a concern has arisen about inline SQL statements that contain joins in our ASP scripts. Have you run across any scenarios where there's been a problem with a join of encrypted data? Could there ever be an instance where the encrypted field (encrypted by Blowfish) in one table would be different from the field in another table given the same initial string, which upon executing the join would cause the join to fail?
To be clearer, here is a quick example:
Table A has an encrypted account number column. Table B also has an encrypted account number column (same data). If we have a SQL statement that performs a join on the account number columns in the two tables, is there any possibility that the join will fail because the Blowfish encryption somehow yielded a different value?
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