Security Concerns with MS Access 2000

[Thomas Seroogy]

I have created a simle program that utiliazes a Microsoft Access 2000
database. This database includes a user name and password that are passed by
the application. The database is not encrypted at this time, but this is
little trouble to employ. Both the database and program are distributed on
disk, and are not functioning as part of a network.

During a recent Microsoft Seminar, I asked the instructor just how secure
the database was from undesired access. His answer was not too comforting.
While I may be overreacting to his comments, it seems that Access security
can be easily compromised, whether encrypted or not, by anyone familiar with
the security features of MS Access.

While it is nice to be able to use the strengths of the Access database for
my program, I would like to make sure that it cannot be easily compromised
should someone want to copy and pirate the information contained within that
database. Any comments or suggestions?

Thank you.
Tom Seroogy
sabertec2@msn.com

[Miroslav St. Jeliazkov]

You can use your own coding for the data by encripting it before putting it
in the proper fields and records. My point is that you can make encription
in your App and then write in the database file and after when you read it
from it you just decript it. So if anyone succeedes to open the file in the
fields he'll find useless info and he has to start seeking for your key and
method of coding.

Regards, Miro