[QUESTION] please need example for https://www.litedb.org/docs/encryption/

[qart2003]

Hey anybody,

I have read about Encryption - https://www.litedb.org/docs/encryption/
How can I use it?

In the project I should store patients data and it's sensitive data should be encrypted/decrypted

[marss72]

If you can derive an encryption key for each patient, you might want to individually encrypt each document by for example making each document contain an ID and an encrypted byte array, that when decrypted can be a JSON string, that then can be deserialized and will contain the secret patient data.

If you want to encrypt the whole database using one key, you can provide a password when opening the database in the connection string. You will need to rebuild the database if it's not encrypted already.

Connection string to introduce encryption: https://www.litedb.org/docs/connection-string/. Make sure to follow the latest encryption standards to make the encryption effective. Never hard-code the password or store it as plain text.