| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | rakeshkumar464 <rakeshkumar464(at)outlook(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PG and database encryption |
| Date: | 2017-08-22 19:55:39 |
| Message-ID: | bf662542-72a1-363f-a7fc-e0f3321f282f@commandprompt.com |
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On 08/22/2017 12:48 PM, rakeshkumar464 wrote:
> We have a requirement to encrypt the entire database. What is the best tool
> to accomplish this. Our primary goal is that it should be transparent to the
> application, with no change in the application, as compared to un-encrypted
> database. Reading about pgcrypto module, it seems it is good for few columns
> only and using it to encrypt entire database is not a good use-case.
>
> Is this which can be done best by file level encryption? What are the good
> tools on Linux (RHES), preferably open-source.
If you are encrypting the entire database, use the filesystem.
Thanks!
JD
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