Re: Securing a database

2009-01-30 Thread Aahz
In article , wrote: > >My company provides some services online, which now they are planning >to make it offline and sell to customers who can use it in their >networks. How critical is it that this application work completely offline? I suggest that you seriously consider making your applicati

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-25 Thread Peter Pearson
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:10:31 -0800 (PST), kt83...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jan 23, 4:41 pm, Bryan Olson wrote: [snip] >> Look up DRM technology companies, such as CloakWare, Macrovision, and >> Cryptography Research. >> >> If you have a modest number of customers, hardware solutions and/or >> strict

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-25 Thread kt83313
On Jan 23, 4:41 pm, Bryan Olson wrote: > kt83...@gmail.com wrote: > > Anyways, if we can make it real hard for them to analyze also, I think > > we are in the good - esp since the clients are not extremely rich > > enough to go for professional analyzers -- > > Sounds like you have the "digital ri

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-25 Thread Bryan Olson
kt83...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much Bryan. It does look like this is out of my league. As Peter Pearson noted, "It is out of *everyone's* league." And Peter used to work for Cryptography Research, a small company that scored as high in this league as anyone. Maybe you can advance the

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2009-01-23 08:26, kt83...@gmail.com wrote: > My company provides some services online, which now they are planning > to make it offline and sell to customers who can use it in their > networks. > > One of our major moneywinners is some data which is stored in a > database. Now, this data inside

Securing a database

2009-01-23 Thread kt83313
My company provides some services online, which now they are planning to make it offline and sell to customers who can use it in their networks. One of our major moneywinners is some data which is stored in a database. Now, this data inside the database was obtained after paying through the nose -

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-23 Thread Bryan Olson
kt83...@gmail.com wrote: Anyways, if we can make it real hard for them to analyze also, I think we are in the good - esp since the clients are not extremely rich enough to go for professional analyzers -- Sounds like you have the "digital rights management" (DRM) problem. As Diez pointed out,

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-23 Thread kt83313
On Jan 23, 3:19 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > > Thank you very much Diez. > > This was my fear. > > Anyways, if we can make it real hard for them to analyze also, I think > > we are in the good - esp since the clients are not extremely rich > > enough to go for professional analyzers -- > > What

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-23 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Thank you very much Diez. This was my fear. Anyways, if we can make it real hard for them to analyze also, I think we are in the good - esp since the clients are not extremely rich enough to go for professional analyzers -- What is the skype method? The code is not huge - less than 20K LOC so, cod

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-23 Thread kt83313
On Jan 23, 12:38 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote: > kt83...@gmail.com schrieb: > > > > > My company provides some services online, which now they are planning > > to make it offline and sell to customers who can use it in their > > networks. > > > One of our major moneywinners is some data which is s

Re: Securing a database

2009-01-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
kt83...@gmail.com schrieb: My company provides some services online, which now they are planning to make it offline and sell to customers who can use it in their networks. One of our major moneywinners is some data which is stored in a database. Now, this data inside the database was obtained af