Re: hide data from admins - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
Subject Re: hide data from admins
Date
Msg-id 20250313193714.27810bba@karst
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In response to Re: hide data from admins  (Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Le Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:03:50 -0400,
Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM Siraj G <tosiraj.g@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Experts!
> >
> > What are the features available in Postgresql to hide PII (personal
> > identifiable information) from the Admin team? Like in Oracle we have data
> > vault and data redaction, I am looking for similar features in
> > PostgreSQL.We do not want to do code level changes.
>
> Look at pgsodium.  However, "no code level changes" is code for at-rest
> encryption.

Unless I'm wrong, pgsodium will not protect you from Admin team. The "postgres"
role will always be able to read your keys or meta-data to derive them from the
master key if they are stored inside the database… and root might be able to
scan the memory to find the master key I suppose.

Storing the keys outisde the database means code level change.

Your best bet would be the Transparent Column Encryption patch, but it is
stalled for one year.

In last resort, I suppose selinux/sepgsql machinery can lock everything the way
you want, even without encryption…

good luck.



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