Re: Secure DB design ?

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Jan Vaartjes <j(dot)vaartjes(at)quicknet(dot)nl>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Secure DB design ?
Date: 2002-09-16 15:38:58
Message-ID: 20020916153858.GA12178@wolff.to
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 20:47:03 +0200,
Jan Vaartjes <j(dot)vaartjes(at)quicknet(dot)nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Im a dutch student, working on a project where security of user
> information stored in a database is priority 1. So the database
> must be designed with high security in mind. I've searched the
> net very intesive, but did'nt find a good recource which can help
> me with "secure database design". I hope someone can help me on
> such a recource, a good book may help too.
> Thanx in advange.

Translucent Databases by Peter Wayner describes using encryption and hashing
to secure data in databases. There are limits on what you can do with this,
but the methods used can be helpful in some cases.

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