Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From tomas@tuxteam.de
Subject Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields
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Msg-id 20090427043050.GB9979@tomas
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In response to Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields  (Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>)
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:13:16PM -0700, Sam Halliday wrote:
> 
> TrueCrypt is exactly the "encrypted drive" solution. It has problems. They
> are described in this thread.

No. This is about *clients* (i.e. laptops which can be stolen). How
some companies allow their employees to run around with unencrypted
laptops really escapes me (actually it angers me :-(

Encrypting the server drive for the database has some drawbacks,
discussed in this thread.

Regards
- -- tomás
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