Re: Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?
Date
Msg-id 21884.1121291003@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?  (Bob <luckyratfoot@gmail.com>)
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Bob <luckyratfoot@gmail.com> writes:
> Doesn't that really only save you from having someone come in at the OS
> level and copying your data files and than moutning them on a differet
> server/database. A person could still come in to psql as a dba or anyone for
> that matter with the proper select grants and query off that data and see it
> in encrypted.

Yeah, the real question here is what threats are you trying to defend
against.  "I need an encrypted database" is pretty nearly a meaningless
statement --- first tell us who the attacker is that you're worried about.

            regards, tom lane

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