BLOB_EATER (7/26/2016)
Hey guys I was wondering if someone could confirm if the experiment that I am doing below is what one would expect from enabling TDE:Before enabling TDE I would find the PageID of interest then calculate the offset and use a hex-editor to navigate to it within the MDF - here you can see the ASCII representation of the data.
Then I would enable TDE and do the same as above but this time showing all sort of random characters - Im guessing this is the encryption taking effect? Is that right?
thanks.
I use XVI32 to examine mdf files. I create a table and insert "aaaaaaa" in a table. Then search for that in the hex editor. Then enable TDE and do the same thing.