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

From Sam Halliday
Subject Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields
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Msg-id BFC58AD4-B909-43F7-B1F2-DE561C0D2604@gmail.com
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In response to Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields  (Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk>)
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I think Sam Mason's proposal of hacking pg-pool sounds feasible. Is  
there any way to create a formal RFE for this? Is anybody interested  
in implementing this?

On 27 Apr 2009, at 13:55, Sam Mason wrote:
> One possible arrangement would be if each user/encryption key had its
> own database cluster.  If that's OK, then maybe you could hack pg-pool
> around so that once it received the secret it would be able to run  
> off,
> mount the appropriate partitions, and start the database engine before
> connecting to it.  I've not used pg-pool before, but have a feeling
> that it can re-write queries on the fly so must have some non-trivial
> protocol knowledge--I may be wrong about that though.



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