Re: encryption problem

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Sylvain Sainnier wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I would encrypt data that I insert in my table, and I don't know how to do
> > this.
> > can you help me
>
> I would look at /contrib/pgcrypto for encryption/decryption routines.

Or look into encrypting the entire filesystem you have your data
directory in. There are several commercial products and I've seen
a HOWTO for Linux somewhere that describes it with open source
stuff. Basically you mount a huge encrypted file through the
loopback device and an encrypt/decrypt driver.

Jan

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