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Home > Forums > Programmers > DBMS Packages > Microsoft SQL Server: Setup and Administration Forum

SQL 2005 Encryption error

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jeffwest2 (MIS)

21 Jun 12 5:14

I am trying to do some testing of data encryption on a local instance of SQL 2005.

I have created a database which has 1 table, when running
create master key encryption by password = '*************'; I get the following error,

An error occurred during decryption.

Does anyone know what the heck I can do to resolve this.

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TomKane (Programmer)

20 Jul 12 0:02

Do you have encryption already in place? It seems odd the SQL Server would be complaining about decryption when you're trying out encryption for what I'm assuming is the first time.

Is there anything in your error log around the time of attempting the encryption that give us a bit more information?

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