There is a great article on SQLServerCentral on an Extended Stored Procedure http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/mcoles/freeencryption.asp and this XP will undoubtedly perform better than my Function. However I had a need to encrypt a column in a shared hosted environment where I was not allowed to install XPs. Just copy script and paste into Query Analyzer
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[fn_PwdCrypt]') and xtype in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF'))
drop function [dbo].[fn_PwdCrypt]
GO
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fn_PwdCrypt(@ptSource varchar(255), @ptPassword varchar(255))
RETURNS varbinary(64)
BEGIN
DECLARE @tdest varchar(255),
@lteller int,
@lPasswTeller int,
@cnt int,
@len int,
@tFinal varbinary(64)
SELECT @tFinal = Convert(varbinary(64),'')
SELECT @len = Len(@ptSource)
SELECT @lteller = 1
SELECT @tdest = @ptSource
SELECT @lPasswTeller = 0
WHILE @lteller <= @len
BEGIN
SELECT @lPasswTeller = @lPasswTeller - 1
If @lPasswTeller < 1
SELECT @lPasswTeller = Len(@ptPassword)
SELECT @tfinal = @tfinal + Convert(varbinary(64),Stuff(Substring(@tdest, @lteller, 1),1,Len( Char(Ascii(Substring(@ptSource, @lteller, 1)) ^ Ascii(Substring(@ptPassword, @lPasswTeller, 1)))), Char(Ascii(Substring(@ptSource, @lteller, 1)) ^ Ascii(Substring(@ptPassword, @lPasswTeller, 1))) ) )
SELECT @lteller = @lteller + 1
END
RETURN @tfinal
END
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[fn_PwdDeCrypt]') and xtype in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF'))
drop function [dbo].[fn_PwdDeCrypt]
GO
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fn_PwdDeCrypt(@ptSource varchar(255), @ptPassword varchar(255))
RETURNS varchar(255)
BEGIN
DECLARE @tdest varchar(255),
@lteller int,
@lPasswTeller int,
@cnt int,
@len int,
@tFinal varchar(255)
SELECT @tFinal = ''
SELECT @len = Len(@ptSource)
SELECT @lteller = 1
SELECT @tdest = @ptSource
SELECT @lPasswTeller = 0
WHILE @lteller <= @len
BEGIN
SELECT @lPasswTeller = @lPasswTeller - 1
If @lPasswTeller < 1
SELECT @lPasswTeller = Len(@ptPassword)
SELECT @tfinal = @tfinal + Left(Stuff(substring(@tdest, @lteller, 1),1,Len( Char(Ascii(substring(@ptSource, @lteller, 1)) ^ Ascii(Substring(@ptPassword, @lPasswTeller, 1)))), Char(Ascii(Substring(@ptSource, @lteller, 1)) ^ Ascii(Substring(@ptPassword, @lPasswTeller, 1))) ), 1)
SELECT @lteller = @lteller+1
END
RETURN @tfinal
END
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
--Test it here
create table #temp
( pwd varbinary(64))
insert into #temp (pwd)
select dbo.fn_PwdCrypt ('MyPassword','secret')
select pwd from #temp
select dbo.fn_PwdDeCrypt (pwd,'secret') from #temp
drop table #temp 
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