Re: Looking for advice on database encryption - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Kellerer
Subject Re: Looking for advice on database encryption
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In response to Looking for advice on database encryption  (Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>)
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Bill Moran wrote on 16.04.2009 21:40:
> The goal here is that if we're going to encrypt the data, it should
> be encrypted in such a way that if an attacker gets ahold of a dump
> of the database, they still can't access the data without the
> passphrases of the individuals who entered the data.

I'm by far not an expert, but my naive attempt would be to store the the
database files in an encrypted filesystem.

Thomas


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