Re: New types for transparent encryption - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: New types for transparent encryption
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Msg-id 407d949e0907070223m141149d5if8a432b81d2f83ad@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: New types for transparent encryption  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Heikki
Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
> What kind of attacks would this protect against? Seems a bit pointless
> to me if the password is being sent to the server anyway. If the
> attacker has superuser access to the server, he can harvest the
> passwords as the clients send them in. If he doesn't, the usual access
> controls with GRANT/REVOKE would be enough.

It would still protect against offline attacks such as against backup files.

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greg
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