Wow, this is really an idea I can work with. I know this is getting really brainstorming, but do you think it is possible to apply steganography (hiding data in pictures) tactics to the columns of a database?
Regards Hector On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Peter Hunsberger < peter.hunsber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Hector Beyers <hqbey...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > does ANYONE have any tips on hiding data on a database server? This means > > that data is stored in places that is not necessarily picked up in the > > schema of the database. I am doing some research on databases and need > some > > direction. > > Any help or direction will be highly appreciated. > > Let me guess: an attempt at security by obscurity? > > I suppose you could always create a couple of columns such that some > function applied over them produced the real result (. You could even > actually store this in an index, so although you could never see the > result directly (except in a dump) queries to get at it might perform > half reasonably. > > -- > Peter Hunsberger >
