Re: Postgres security issue - protecting datafiles

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: zferentz(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres security issue - protecting datafiles
Date: 2008-06-04 16:01:32
Message-ID: 36e682920806040901w15bc075ejda64086da5c3acc9@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:16 PM, <zferentz(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Is there a way to protect the data files, so even the "malicious
> administrator" cannot see the data ?

Encrypt it. Though, how you store the key will be important.

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