Re: [Firebird-devel] On-disk Encryption

2015-08-23 Thread Wols Lists
On 22/08/15 02:03, Geoff Worboys wrote: >> Second question: If you would consider in-disk database >> > encryption, on a scale of 1 to 5 how important is unattended >> > startup, i.e. no human to enter a password, given that it's >> > probably impossible to make such a system robustly secure? > 3 >

Re: [Firebird-devel] On-disk Encryption

2015-08-22 Thread James Starkey
On Friday, August 21, 2015, Scott Morgan wrote: > > Q1 : 4, I don't expect NSA defeating crypto[0], but enough to keep > casual eyes away from expensive data. > > Q2 : 5, It's a must. Whether the key is somehow held internal to the > .FDB file (with it's own pswd, no system wide account access, n

Re: [Firebird-devel] On-disk Encryption

2015-08-21 Thread Scott Morgan
On 21/08/15 20:40, James Starkey wrote: > First question: On a scale from 1 (don't care, wouldn't use it) to 5 (I > need it yesterday) how important to us is the ability to encrypt > database files. Assume a bobust encryption scheme and a moderately > civilized key management system. Please feel

Re: [Firebird-devel] On-disk Encryption

2015-08-21 Thread Geoff Worboys
James Starkey wrote: > I'm curious about how important people consider on-disk > encryption to be.  I have two questions. > First question: On a scale from 1 (don't care, wouldn't use > it) to 5 (I need it yesterday) how important to us is the > ability to encrypt database files. [...] 2 My first

Re: [Firebird-devel] On-disk Encryption

2015-08-21 Thread Carlos H. Cantu
Title: Re: [Firebird-devel] On-disk Encryption I'm curious about how important people consider on-disk encryption to be.  I have two questions. First question: On a scale from 1 (don't care, wouldn't use it) to 5 (I need it yesterday) how important to us is the ability to e

Re: [Firebird-devel] On-disk Encryption

2015-08-21 Thread Leyne, Sean
First question: On a scale from 1 (don't care, wouldn't use it) to 5 (I need it yesterday) how important to us is the ability to encrypt database files. 2 Second question: If you would consider in-disk database encryption, on a scale of 1 to 5 how important is unattended startup, i.e. no huma

[Firebird-devel] On-disk Encryption

2015-08-21 Thread James Starkey
I'm curious about how important people consider on-disk encryption to be. I have two questions. First question: On a scale from 1 (don't care, wouldn't use it) to 5 (I need it yesterday) how important to us is the ability to encrypt database files. Assume a bobust encryption scheme and a moderate