Encrypting Swap Files

To keep all data as secure as possible, the Simba PayPal ODBC Connector allows you to encrypt the swap file content.

Important:
  • Enabling swap file encryption can significantly decrease performance. Only enable swap file encryption in situations where it is required.
  • Typically, connector-wide configuration settings (such as swap file encryption) are applied to all connections that use the connector. However, if the connector uses the RDFODBC dependency, then connector-wide configuration settings are applied to all connectors that also use the RDFODBC dependency.

To enable swap file encryption:

  1. From the /lib subfolder in the connector installation directory, do one of the following:
    • If the connector is using the RDFODBC dependency, then open the rdf.rdfodbc.ini configuration file in a text editor.
    • Otherwise, open the simba.paypalodbc.ini configuration file in a text editor.
  2. Set the EncryptSwapFile property to 1.
  3. Save the configuration file.