Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Connection Encryption

With SQL Server 2012, it is easy to set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted client/server communication over all protocols. The SNAC net-library handles the tasks of encryption and decryption on both the server and client ends. (Note that this process does cause a slight decrease in performance.) Setting it up requires both server-side and client-side configuration changes; this section covers only the client-side changes in detail.

SQL Server 2012 enables encryption using two types of certificates:

Certificates generated by and obtained from an external certification authority such as VeriSign

Certificates generated ...