You might consider a full disk/volume/partition encryption maybe? http://truecrypt.com/
I use this for my private files and it's awesome. Cross platform and can do virtual partitions on an actual physical drive. > -----Original Message----- > From: philip [mailto:phi...@livenet.ac.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:08 AM > To: Mike Scully > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: MySQL Encryption - Third-party tools > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Mike Scully wrote: > > > Hello, all. > > =20 > > Can any of you share with me the names of any third-party tools or > > appliances that you are using to encrypt your MySQL databases? I am > > doing a search and would like to narrow down the initial > search list. > > Thanks! > > =20 > > Mike > > I use ccrypt from http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net to encrypt databases > before storing them on removable media for offsite storage. > > Platform is a Sun Ultra 45 running Solaris 10 and the command looks > something like, > > mysqldump db_name | bzip2 | ccrypt -e -k keyfile | ... > > (Note the bzip2 in the pipeline. This reduces the size of the > files by a > factor of between 5-8.) > > It's certainly more than fast enough for my needs. I suspect > most of the > time is taken up by mysqldmp and writing the ouput to the > external media. > > -- > TTFN > > Philip Riebold, p.rieb...@ucl.ac.uk > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=dae...@daevid.com > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
