Hi, I'm using BerkeleyDB 4.1 (RedHad 7.3) together with BerkeleyDB.pm version 0.20. The version of DB4.1 supports encrypted datafiles and logfiles, but I can't seem to get it working. Grepping the database shows no encryption is taking place. This is what I have so far: 
use strict ;
use BerkeleyDB ;

my $dbfile = 'encrypt.db'
unlink $dbfile;

my $env = new BerkeleyDB::Env
    -SetFlags=> DB_ENCRYPT;

my $db = tie my %hash, 'BerkeleyDB::Hash',
    -Filename   => $dbfile',
     -Env=> $env,
     -Flags     => DB_CREATE,
  or die "Cannot open $filename: $!\n" ;

$hash{jallah} = "bah" ;

undef $db ;
untie %hash ;
By inspecting the 'encrypt.db', I can find the string 'jallah' I stored in the database. :(
Clearly, no encryption has taken place.

I'm no C programmer, and find it difficult to use the docs from sleepycat. I find nothing about encryption in the pods for BerkeleyDB.pm, still when inspecting the sources of BerkeleyDB.pm I get the impression that it's supported? - Vlad

In reply to Problems using BerkeleyDB encryption by minceme

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