Legislative Bills. Legislation begins with the submission of a bill to the legislature for consideration. A bill is a draft, or tentative version, of what might become part of the written law.
SQL Server 2005: using symmetric keys to encrypt data. In SQL Server 2005, the recommended method for encrypting data is to use symmetric keys. A symmetric key can be created using the CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY statement. Information about symmetric keys is stored in the sys.symmetric_keys catalog.
The master key will be used to encrypt the symmetric key we will create. It is also used to encrypt certificates and asymmetric keys. The master key is encrypted using the Triple DES algorithm and the supplied password. The password must meet the Windows password policy of the server hosting SQL Server.