Have you thought of the obvious - a VPN??? This can be done for free with
RRAS...

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Coolnev [mailto:acoolaCHAT.RU]
Sent: 03 May 2001 08:51
To: FOCUS-MSSECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: Re: Using ODBC over the Internet

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Chandika Gunawardana wrote:
> I am thinking of suggesting a solution which involves ODBC assess over the
Internet. I have a security problem because the queries and reaults will be
transmitted over the Internet as cleartext. Is there a way of securing the
datastream of a ODBC connection?

AFAIK supporting secure ODBC communications depends on a vendor of DBMS you
are using. i.e. there is no common solution for the problem.
Google query: ODBC SSL gives many links. Hope this helps.

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