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Is the Service Master Key (SMK) used to encrypt stored procedures in SQL Server 2008?

I know it is used for data, but what about database objects? If the Service Master Key is not used, then I would expect that if one were to do a database recovery from one server to another (without restoring the SMK) that the stored procedures would continue to work.

Is this true?

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It is not used. Details about the encryption algorithm used to encrypt database objects you can find here: http://sqlity.net/en/1617/decrypting-encrypted-database-objects/

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  • It's worth mentioning that the algorithm - and thus the attack method - remains exactly the same in SQL Server 2012.
    – db2
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 13:33
  • Thanks. I thought this was true, but wanted to be sure.
    – shawno
    Commented Jan 9, 2013 at 21:15

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