Relational Database Consultants, Inc (RDC) today announced that a leading security and encryption software offering for the Oracle RDBMS, the Encryption Wizard, now ships with Natural Language Support (NLS) for international character sets.

RDC Marketing Director, Don Parret, states: "Supporting multi-byte character sets makes the Encryption Wizard the first truly global security and encryption tool on the market". "With the Encryption Wizard's Data at Rest interface to Oracle's NLS, securing natural language data is accomplished with a click of the mouse. Database customers can now leave the complexity of encrypting multi-byte characters to us."

Since many languages are represented in their written form as ideograms, complex symbols that require multi-byte characters for storage, protecting natural language character sets from data theft has always been difficult. These multi-dimensional arrays are represented in the Oracle RDBMS as nchar and nvarchar2 data types.

The Encryption Wizard for Oracle is considered the fastest Oracle database encryption product on the market. Utilizing Oracle's FIPS 140-2 complaint cryptography packages, it offers AES256, 128 and DES3 encryption. The fact that it hides the complexity of database encryption with an easy to use GUI interface is the secret to the software's ROI for customers.

Built around the Encryption Wizard's DAR security blanket, Oracle Applications are able to access data through updateable decrypted views. These views enable authorized users to behold and modify encrypted rows in their original form. To insure minimal speed degradation during these operations, the Encryption Wizard employs bit-mapped function indexes.