Lotus Notes® and Domino® 6 Application Development Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 610, 611, and 612)

Database Encryption

Another important security feature of Domino is the capability to encrypt an entire database. As you may know, encryption is the process of using complex mathematical algorithms called keys to scramble data so that is it unintelligible to anyone who does not have the appropriate key. You can encrypt any local database to which you have Manager access by using the public key in your Notes ID.

There are three increasingly secure levels of encryption that you can apply to a local database:

• Simple encryption— Simple encryption, in the words of Lotus, “provides protection against casual snooping.” It provides the fastest access to the database and enables the database to be compressed by disk compression utilities.

• Medium encryption— ...