Re: Looking for advice on database encryption

From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Looking for advice on database encryption
Date: 2009-04-16 20:00:03
Message-ID: gs82o0$7t8$1@ger.gmane.org
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Bill Moran wrote on 16.04.2009 21:40:
> The goal here is that if we're going to encrypt the data, it should
> be encrypted in such a way that if an attacker gets ahold of a dump
> of the database, they still can't access the data without the
> passphrases of the individuals who entered the data.

I'm by far not an expert, but my naive attempt would be to store the the
database files in an encrypted filesystem.

Thomas

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