Re: Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Matt McNeil <mcneil(at)callahanpro(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?
Date: 2005-07-13 19:46:32
Message-ID: 42D56F98.6050600@commandprompt.com
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> My sense is that this is a difficult problem. However, I made the
> mistake of promising this functionality,

Well it isn't that difficult except that you need some level of two way
encryption and it is going to be a performance nightmare.

I would suggest instead just mounting postgresql on an encrypted filesystem.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> so I'm scrambling to figure out some kind of solution. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Matt

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