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data-encryption-in-sql-server.md

SQL Server provides functions to encrypt and decrypt data using a certificate, asymmetric key, or symmetric key. It manages all of these in an internal certificate store. The store uses an encryption ...
Security Boulevard

Symmetric Cryptography in Practice: A Developer’s Guide to Key Management

Cryptography often intimidates developers due to its mathematical complexity, yet it forms the backbone of modern computer security—from HTTPS connections to payment processing. While you don't need a ...
GitHub

decryptbykey-transact-sql.md

This function uses a symmetric key to decrypt data. DECRYPTBYKEY uses a symmetric key. The database must have this symmetric key already open. DECRYPTBYKEY will allow multiple keys open at the same ...
Ars Technica

SQL Server 05: Grant Symmetric Key access to only 2 users

I got this figured out on StackOverflow, turns out the accounts I was using were all db_owner's of that DB so they had access to the key by default.<BR><BR>Once I created a new account that wasn't a ...