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Re: Encrypted Database


  • Subject: Re: Encrypted Database
  • From: Karl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:38:04 +0000

Its usually unnecessary to encrypt all data in a database. Customer's do not understand exactly what they are asking for.

Most commercial databases offer such facilities without you doing any work.

With WO, you can implement the encryption yourself at the EO level. Its a significant overhead that could impact the performance of your application.

At the end of the day, the data is only as secure as the keys that you use for your encryption.

I would recommend getting a thorough understanding of the clients' concern and any associated legislative framework and go from there.

Karl

On 7-Dec-05, at 10:32 AM, Graham J Lee wrote:

On 7 Dec 2005, at 03:08, James Cicenia wrote:

Hello

We recently had a request for our application but they want the data that is stored in the database to be encrypted.

We are using mySQL. Anyone know anything at all about this?

I can't comment on the performance because I've only done this on my iBook which is used for development, but you could put the MySQL data directory onto an encrypted disk image.


Cheers,

Graham.
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