Ok people thank you for your answers.
Timothy Madden
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Michael Gould
wrote:
> Timothy,
>
> I've worked with SQL Anywhere which does have database encryption. There
> are pluses to having a encrypted db, but it did slow down the processing.
&g
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Kevin Grittner
wrote:
> Timothy Madden wrote:
>
[...]
> But the server needs to read certain data from the database
> directory in order to start. In particular, WAL files need to be
> read to get a clean start, and those can contain any data from
ss to your machine, nothing (no filesystem
> and no database encryption) is goint to help you here.
I would have to disagree with you here. The whole point of encryption
is that you need the key in order to get your data back.
Timothy Madden
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columns in all
tables are ecrypted (although I would like even the number and names
of tables and schema-objects to be encrypted).
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Kevin Grittner
wrote:
> Timothy Madden wrote:
>
>> With an encrypted database, you need the password anytime you
>>
ote:
>> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>> Timothy Madden wrote:
>>
>>>> My scenario is how to protect the database if the machine is
>>>> stolen (it is a mini-laptop), and I would like to encrypt the
>>>> entire database, that is all columns of all tables
database-level encryption.
Thank you,
Timothy Madden
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 04/03/2010 06:35 AM, Timothy Madden wrote:
>> I can only see how PostgreSQL encrypts the password or the connection
>> in the documentation, and for the database I can see ap
Hello
Please how could I encrypt my database so data can be retrieved only
with my password, when my client application starts, even if the
database is captured ?
I would like the encryption to be transparent at the application
level, which needs only provide a password and then all the database
