Where is it best to encrypt your data: application vs database?

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Published on 2010-03-20T14:37:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 14:41 UTC
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Where is the best place to do your encryption/decryption routines? Should this be done in the application before it sends the information to the database, or should the data be sent to the database and have the database handle the encrypting and decrypting?

Is one solution normally better then the other? or does it come down to the situation?

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