I have enabled TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) on almost all of my production SQL Server database servers. Yesterday I was approached by the IA (Information Assurance) team and they wanted to know what was the encryption level (key length and algorithm) of one of the database servers.
I already knew it was AES-256 but IA needed a screenshot as proof. So I wrote this little query to bring back the database name, id, encryption key length and algorithm. I ran it, took a screenshot and sent it to them.
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