On 11/18/2015 08:45 PM, Leyne, Sean wrote: >> 2 main usages of database encryption: >> - protect distributed database from unauthorized access, > Actually, no! Access control is not what database encryption is about.
Sean, may be "access" is bad word here. I've meant that _only_ special application, distributed together with database, must have access to it. "unauthorized access" here is _any_ access not from that app. > >> - protect database from access if server became physically available to third >> party (something like stolen). > Physical security is not a problem that database encryption is designed to > solve. Why not? It's one of problems database encryption can decide. Certainly, it can be decided by filesystem encryption, but database encryption is better in some aspects than all filesystem encryption. For example it may be done on the fly. > > I think we need to step back and decide what the real problem is trying to be > solved!!! Yes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
