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Re: Encrypted storage
From: Shirokov Roman <forward () vlz ru>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:29:44 +0400
Hello Jeffrey, Thursday, September 9, 2004, 12:38:53 AM, you wrote: JK> I was wondering (because customers have asked me) whether JK> anyone is configuring their database to store all information JK> encrypted. Databases have this capability but the overhead can be JK> so heavy that vendors don't recommend using it generically. Also, JK> if most of the data is not sensitive it is a lot of work to JK> protect small amounts of data. Is anyone aware of someone using JK> this capability? Under what circumstances? What's the performance JK> hit? What other gotchas? How about encrypted communication to the JK> DB from the app server? I'm interesting, if somebody now, how could I implement such thing's (store all information encrypted) using perl and what cryptoalgorithms are best for that? -- Best regards, Shirokov Roman Network Administrator e-mail:forward () vlz ru Key fingerprint 64F8 239D 2176 AFB8 CAB9 F58C B580 F16E 28F5 A96E Stick around; I may need an alibi...
Current thread:
- Encrypted storage Jeffrey Koniszewski (Sep 08)
- Re: Encrypted storage Ido Rosen (Sep 09)
- Re: Encrypted storage Erik Kangas (Sep 09)
- Re: Encrypted storage Martin Sarsale (Sep 09)
- Re: Encrypted storage Shirokov Roman (Sep 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Encrypted storage Glenn_Everhart (Sep 09)
- RE: Encrypted storage Browne, Derek (Sep 10)
- RE: Encrypted storage Singh, Yashpal (Sep 10)
- RE: Encrypted storage Matis (Sep 11)
- Re: Encrypted storage Ido Rosen (Sep 09)