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From Silvana Di Martino
Subject Re: Database Encryption (now required by law in Italy)
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Msg-id 200403052102.40518.silvanadimartino@tin.it
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In response to Re: Database Encryption (now required by law in Italy)  (Mark Gibson <gibsonm@cromwell.co.uk>)
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Alle 13:53, venerdì 5 marzo 2004, Mark Gibson ha scritto:
> Silvana Di Martino wrote:
> >Is there any (native/third party) tool for encrypting a PGSQL database on
> > the disk? Is there any PGSQL option for encrypting data on the fly?
>
> Have a look in contrib/pgcrypto.
> Although I haven't actually tried it yet.

Thanks!

The pgcrypto package contains a few server-side (C + PL/PGSQL) functions that
implement a few data encryption/decryption methods. It looks like they can be
used to protect my data from unauthorized access.

See you
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Alessandro Bottoni and Silvana Di Martino
alessandrobottoni@interfree.it
silvanadimartino@tin.it

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