Microsoft introduced transparent data encryption (TDE) when it released SQL Server 2008, adding full database encryption rather than the limited cell-based encryption that debuted in SQL Server 2005.

SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted without having to change the applications that access it.

The software will natively support Web services, XML and encryption. “The data encryption capability helps you to meet the needs of data privacy and security,” said Microsoft’s Tom Rizzo, director, ...

Microsoft's SQL Server database software offers two easy-to-use functions, one of which encrypts data using a passphrase, the other decrypting it with the same passphrase.

Microsoft’s SQL Server also supports automatically encrypting data before it’s stored to a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state disk (SSD), something it also calls “transparent database ...

There had been one exception: Transparent Data Encryption, which encrypts SQL Server data files and backups at rest so that a database or transaction log file cannot be copied to another server ...

It protects enterprise data by facilitating real-time I/O encryption and decryption of SQL Server database data. It further uses AES and 3DES encryption algorithms while encrypting and decrypting ...

This isn't something I would have thought to be impossible to find information on. I can't find any documentation or articles that show if SharePoint 2010 supports the "Force Encryption" on the MS ...