obfuscated data gets corrupted

From: Greg Solomon <greg.solomon_at_betfair.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:42:54 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00393BF0.20010920084527@fatcity.com>

Has anyone else experienced the following ?

Oracle 8.1.6.0.0 on Red Hat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.19

Table X in database A contains data encrypted using obfuscation toolkit. Table Y in database B is materialised view of table X.

When I decrypt table X using o t I get my data.
When I decrypt table Y using o t I get an ORA 28232 - Invalid input length for obfuscation toolkit.
When I e.g. select decrypt(col1) from (select * from X_at_A), I get an ORA 28232 - Invalid input length for obfuscation toolkit.
And ... when I export A and import to C and then select decrypt(col1) from A, I get an ORA 28232 - Invalid input length for obfuscation toolkit.

For case 1 when I select length(col1), I get 24 for all rows. For cases 2, 3, and 4 when I select length(col1) rather than decrypt(col1), I get a variety of numbers from 2 to 24.

Is there any way to access the data without decrypting it on database A first ?

Thanks in advance
Greg
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