SQLite does not support encryption or passwords. There are a few extensions that add the capability for encryption, among these are The SQLite Encrytion Extension (SEE), SQLite-Crypt, wxsqlite3 and SQLCipher. However none of these provides with the tcl bindings to be able to manipulate an SQLite database from tcl code. I will show you how to achieve this, but it will take a bit of work. You need to download MinGW/MSYS, OpenSSL and the SQLCipher source code. After that follow these steps: 1 - install MinGW/MSYS 2 - install OpenSSL (requires Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables) 3 - create an sqlcipher directory and place all the files from the SQLCipher zip 4 - copy openSSL/bin/libeay32.dll to sqlcipher directory. 5 - copy openSSL/lib/MinGW to /MinGW/lib directory. 6 - go to the sqlcipher directory and compile using the following command: ./configure CFLAGS="-DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC -I/c/openssl/include" LDFLAGS="-leay32 -L/c/openssl/lib" 7 - type make 8 - type make dll These will create an sqlite3.exe and sqlite3.dll with tcl bindings. When trying to encrypt a database just type: PRAGMA key = 'password' That's all.