Alters an encryption key and certificate that is used for transparently encrypting a database. For more information about transparent database encryption, see Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). -- ...

While there are no major new TDE features in SQL Server 2012, Microsoft has upped the ante by enabling the database master keys to use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256 encryption algorithm.

This is the third part of the JWKS project series in my Foundations of Cybersecurity class. The requirements for this project were to include AES encryption for securing private keys stored in the ...

A 2019 Kryptera research paper estimated that a quantum computer capable of more than 6,600 logical, error-corrected qubits would be required to break AES-256 encryption. That number of logical qubits ...