Re: Whole Database or Table AES encryption

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Aaron Gray <aaronngray(dot)lists(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Whole Database or Table AES encryption
Date: 2022-04-27 17:01:20
Message-ID: Yml24A0NLlcmiknJ@momjian.us
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 05:21:41PM +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to (virtually) encrypt whole databases or tables with
> AES or other types of encryption ?

You can use storage encryption via the operating system. Cybertec has a
patch for PG 12 and the community is working on an implementation,
perhaps for PG 16. You can also do column-level encryption on the
server side via pgcrypto, or on the client side.

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