Password protect sqlite db

[Baliga]

Hi All,

  Is there a standard way by which I could put a password protection to the sqlite db when it gets created in ORM lite?

Regards

Baliga

[David Fire]

i think no...
but probably you don't need it...
what are you trying to do?
if it is like for a game, where you want to encrypt the amount of gold for example, you can generate an md5 for each item (or for the relevant items) instead, i saw that in a game...
The only way anyone can have access to the DB in android is if the phone is rooted or if it is installed in an emulator. (and if the stole your signing file)
Any way if you insist in encrypt the DB, you should encrypt the DATA in the db and not the DB itself. because ormlite depends on Android library to open and read the DB.

2012/8/16 Baliga <bnba...@gmail.com>

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[Baliga, Narasimha]

Well, the DB is created in a folder on a SD card thus is accessible to users - this is an enterprise app which gets installed (not thru the android market) on various users (out clients) and we wanted to keep the db and other files on SD card so that if some one uninstalls the app, atleast the data is accessible...

Thanks for the information, I will think about it...

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[Ahsan Kamal]

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