Re: [postgis-users] encryption of PostGIS databases

2011-05-12 Thread Ben Madin
You can use the pgctrypto functions from contrib, but you might be better off securing the database and connections to it, rather than encrypting the data. Apart from the overhead of encrypting and decrypting the large volumes of data typically associated with geometry, I suspect your indexing w

Re: [postgis-users] encryption of PostGIS databases

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Toews
Hi Paul, This is more of a PostgreSQL question, see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/encryption-options.html You can require that all connections use SSL and make sure all users have strong passwords. -Mike On 13 May 2011 00:30, Malm Paul wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way to protect geog

[postgis-users] encryption of PostGIS databases

2011-05-12 Thread Malm Paul
Hi, Is there a way to protect geographical data by encrypt the GIS db, if so that is the impact on performance? Kind regards, Paul ___ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postg