SQL Server: Column Encryption Using Asymmetric Keys

Yadav, Niteesh
Level Up Coding
Published in
7 min readFeb 12, 2021

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SQL Server can use symmetric keys to encrypt columns, but this approach suffers from low security. In this article, we show how to use asymmetric keys to implement column encryption in SQL Server and protect users’ critical core privacy data columns.

Asymmetric Encryption Process

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