Encrypting databases
Posted: December 8th, 2020, 4:47 pm
Hi folks,
I´m starting to consider using csdbe files on our surveys, so, I do not have a clear idea on how to do that. The main purpose is, of course, to protect confidentiality, etc.
I have so many questions that I really do not know how to start with. For example:
1. What happens if we forget the password of a certain csdbe?
2. Is there a way to define a "master psw" that would be able to read all the csdbe files created by us?
3. What is the best scenario to implement a csdbe file in a survey using tablets, where we deploy he application from a server to the interviewer´s tablets, execute the interviews, upload with syncdata, and then download the cddbe files to process centrally.
Later, we export the data to send it to the end users (SAS, STATA, R, SPSS). As these formats are not protected when going out of the CsPro environment, we have to protect them by sing something like the Zip or RAR to specify a password.
4. So, every interviewer would need to know the file´s psw.
5. And when downloading to process the file we would need to distribute the psw to all people involved
Or does it have a better and simpler solution?
I´m starting to consider using csdbe files on our surveys, so, I do not have a clear idea on how to do that. The main purpose is, of course, to protect confidentiality, etc.
I have so many questions that I really do not know how to start with. For example:
1. What happens if we forget the password of a certain csdbe?
2. Is there a way to define a "master psw" that would be able to read all the csdbe files created by us?
3. What is the best scenario to implement a csdbe file in a survey using tablets, where we deploy he application from a server to the interviewer´s tablets, execute the interviews, upload with syncdata, and then download the cddbe files to process centrally.
Later, we export the data to send it to the end users (SAS, STATA, R, SPSS). As these formats are not protected when going out of the CsPro environment, we have to protect them by sing something like the Zip or RAR to specify a password.
4. So, every interviewer would need to know the file´s psw.
5. And when downloading to process the file we would need to distribute the psw to all people involved
Or does it have a better and simpler solution?