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SQL Anywhere Studio Security Guide
  Keeping Your Data Secure
    Encrypting a database
      Controlling strong encryption

Strong encryption status

Although you can't simply turn strong encryption on or off in an existing database, you can choose from two options when it comes to implementing strong encryption. You can either create a database from scratch with strong encryption, or you can rebuild an existing database and change the encryption status at that time. Rebuilding the database unloads all of the data and schema of an existing database, creates a new database (at which point you can change a variety of settings including strong encryption status), and reloads the data into the new database. You need to know the key to unload a strongly encrypted database.

For more information on these features, see


Contents Index Controlling strong encryption The encryption key