Re: [Firebird-net-provider] Connecting to encrypted databases

[Gerdus v. Z. <ger...@gm...>]

What about a callback on Connection that returns a Connection Info
(ConnectionStringBuilder-like) object.
Could also add a connection constructor overload that accepts a Connection
Info object.
Can then provide all connection data in one place with convenience of not
converting from/to a string.


On 12 July 2017 at 10:44, Jiří Činčura <ji...@ci...> wrote:

> > I think it makes more sense on the connection string. It already contains
> > sensitive info (username,password) and needing to provide connection
> > related info by another method would be counter intuitive.
>
> Good point.
>
> In my thinking I saw two problems, slightly different from what password
> does. The key can be binary data and that's difficult to pass in string.
> And the key might be stored on some HSM.
>
> Not that it would rule out connection string completely, it just makes
> fit less, IMO.
>
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