----- Original Message ----- From: "Dmitry Kuzmenko" <k...@ibase.ru> To: "For discussion among Firebird Developers" <firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [Firebird-devel] tool for encryptingdatabaseinitially(andprobably decrypting it)
> Hello, Vlad! > > Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 2:36:23 PM, you wrote: > >>> Because I consider decryption as a "single-user" operation. Seems you >>> want people to work with DB while it is being encrypted. > > VK> Of course ! "single-user" operations is BAD in *multy-user* software, > let not > VK> create one more... > > Funny joke. But it work only if you think that admin will play with > encrypting/decrypting DB the whole day, or if encryption of 1gb > database will take several hours. > > I think, if something can be done in exclusive mode, it must > not be spreaded over the code and multiuser access. > > Database encryption or decryption is a some kind of > "preparation" work, that must not be executed suddenly and several > times per day. > > Anyway, "encrypted" flag at the header of the page makes > this conversation useless. > > -- > Dmitry Kuzmenko, www.ibase.ru, (495) 953-13-34 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to > monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second > resolution app monitoring today. Free. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev > Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
