Thread: encrypt odbc transactions?
Hello, I'm worried about the transactions of sensitive data on the network without encryption. Is there any way to secure not only passwords but also data? I read in the mailling list archive something about the possibility of using SSL to do transactions through an encrypted tunel. Did any one manage to do that? Any hint or lead will be much appretiated. regards, Rony. _____________ _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
"Rony Khoury" <rkrk@hotmail.com> writes:
> I read in the mailling list archive something about the possibility of using
> SSL to do transactions through an encrypted tunel.
> Did any one manage to do that?
I do not think ODBC has any support for SSL (though I might be wrong).
However, if you can set up an SSH tunnel then you can pass the Postgres
connection through that, without any special cooperation from either
the ODBC or Postgres server side.
regards, tom lane
What's required for this? Is it just a working sshd on the linux side and ssh client on windows? (Could you give an example of the magic command that will make it all work? ;) -Cedar On Mon, 7 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > "Rony Khoury" <rkrk@hotmail.com> writes: > > I read in the mailling list archive something about the possibility of using > > SSL to do transactions through an encrypted tunel. > > Did any one manage to do that? > > I do not think ODBC has any support for SSL (though I might be wrong). > However, if you can set up an SSH tunnel then you can pass the Postgres > connection through that, without any special cooperation from either > the ODBC or Postgres server side. > > regards, tom lane
Hello, The problem with SSL is that it is very slow. The best solution I used until now is CIPE, available both on Linux and Windows. Easy to install and very fast because kernel based: Linux: http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html Windows: http://cipe-win32.sourceforge.net/ At 12:25 07/05/01 +0300, you wrote: >Hello, > >I'm worried about the transactions of sensitive data on the network >without encryption. Is there any way to secure not only passwords but also >data? > >I read in the mailling list archive something about the possibility of >using SSL to do transactions through an encrypted tunel. >Did any one manage to do that? > >Any hint or lead will be much appretiated. > >regards, >Rony. >_____________ >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)