Re: PGP encrypt/decrypt - Prereqistes

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Vikram A <vikkiatbipl(at)yahoo(dot)in> wrote:
> I would like to crypt certain sensitive information in my applications such
> as Student register number, their marks, results etc. For this reason i done
> a study for doing encryption. Where I found that this PGP will help
> the encryption/decryption.
> Any other methods/techniques are there for encryption? I
> prefer encryption with "key"; key also should not be known to Developers.
> Please suggest any such methods.
> Thank you in advance.

What exactly is the threat against which you are defending? Without a
clearly defined goal, adding encryption for encryption's sake is just
pointless. The solution you choose cannot be determined without
defining the threat first.