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Review on ISARA Catalyst OpenSSL Connector by Russ Charmin

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Excellent and simple to utilize cryptography solution

It's very easy for anyone who can code in C# or VB, which I'm not so good at yet but my colleague helps me with that (which i appreciate). The documentation could be better as it contains many errors/incomplete sections etc., especially when they go through some advanced features such those available from Microsoft Sql Server Driver - like table valued parameters support! This library allows us use our own custom encryption functions rather than using built one provided by open SSL itself without any hassle; this reduces security risk tremendously because we are more self confident towards them since no third party vendor has access over these libraries unlike others where you rely upon theirs alone if your product fails then what happens? We're totally safe now knowing all data being transmitted between client applications & server application stays encrypted hence secure enought ;-).

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Pros
  • Easy to implement
  • Simple usage syntaxes.
  • Very fast execution speed compared other popular ones out there e.g TDS driver used within SQL SERVER 2008 R2+ is much slower here
  • Can easily handle non trivial scenarios too including complex database queries involving multiple tables via joins
Cons
  • Almost never