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I am new to SQL and just inherited a sql database that has 3 encrypted columns. I need to export the data in those columns but it appears that everything is encrypted. I have done a lot of of googling but am unable to find any info on how to encrypt the columns if you dont know how the data was encrypted in the first place of any of the passwords. I do have some asp code that has an AES key but im not sure if that is useful. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to start here?
Jun 1 '15 #1
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You need to know the keys. If you don't know what key was used to encrypt the data, you're pretty much out of luck.

If you know the key, then you can just try each of the encryption methods until you find the right one.
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