Re: WITH ENCRYPTION feature ? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: WITH ENCRYPTION feature ?
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Msg-id 36e682920801240536n77a420aw15192223537bb5d7@mail.gmail.com
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In response to WITH ENCRYPTION feature ?  (Robert Bernabe <rbernabe@sandmansystems.com>)
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On Jan 24, 2008 4:32 AM, Robert Bernabe <rbernabe@sandmansystems.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    Is there a translation of this MSSQL feature in PostgreSQL? It's
> still actually possible to decrypt the encrypted stored procedure in the
> server but end of the day it should be recognized that all these efforts
> will just serve to make things slightly more difficult (e.g. leaving
> your car unlocked instead of locked or leaving the keys inside). Anyways
> the feature in MSSQL will encrypt the stored procedure in the server
> such that when it's viewed by a sysad or anybody else, they will
> encrypted text instead of T-SQL code.  Many Thanks in advance for any
> clues.

Nope, there is no such way to do this in Postgres.  You can look
through the archives (primarily on -hackers) regarding encryption,
wrapping, and obfuscation.


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