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<pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;
int
DB-&gt;set_encrypt(DB *db, const char *passwd, u_int32_t flags); </pre>
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Set the password used by the Berkeley DB library to perform encryption
and decryption.
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Because databases opened within Berkeley DB environments use the
password specified to the environment, it is an error to attempt to
set a password in a database created within an environment.
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The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;set_encrypt()</code> method may not be called after the
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The <span class="bold"><strong>passwd</strong></span> parameter is the password
used to perform encryption and decryption.
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The <span class="bold"><strong>flags</strong></span> parameter must be set to 0
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Use the Rijndael/AES (also known as the Advanced Encryption Standard
and Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 197) algorithm for
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If the method was called after <a class="xref" href="dbopen.html" title="DB-&gt;open()">DB-&gt;open()</a>
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Cryptography is not available in this Berkeley DB release.
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