Did you know that the vast majority of calls carried out on the 3.5 billion GSM connections in the world today are protected by a 21-year old 64-bit encryption algorithm? You should now, given ...

Two layers will take longer than one, even if the first layer is easily breakable. <BR><BR>For normal use, though, (what you or I would do) using 64 bit encryption should be sufficent.

1/ In SQL server 2008, there is a new whole database encryption option (TDE). I suspect that using this option will make the backups incompatible with SQL 2005.