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Re: pre-screening new package: SQLCipher, based on SQLite3



On 09/28/2012 04:23 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>
>> The tricky part is that it is a modified version of SQLite3, and lintian
>> properly gives an error about that. But because of the features that
>> SQLCipher provides, it must modify the core of SQLite to work, therefore
>> it cannot be made into a plugin.
> Why isn't it implemented as a VFS plugin?

I don't know of any other precedent for a VFS plugin for adding
encryption support, do you?  Maybe Stephen can speak more to that.

.hc


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