Re: Security and Data Protection Issues

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Stuart Gundry <stuart(dot)gundry(at)googlemail(dot)com>
Cc: Jan Urban'ski <j(dot)urbanski(at)students(dot)mimuw(dot)edu(dot)pl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Security and Data Protection Issues
Date: 2008-07-10 08:43:14
Message-ID: 4875CBA2.4080704@archonet.com
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Stuart Gundry wrote:
> Thank you, I'm also curious as to whether the data folder is already in some
> way encrypted and if so, what encryption/obfuscation is being used. There
> doesn't seem to be anything about this on the web.

No encryption, although large text fields may be compressed (read up on
TOAST) so not readable as plain-text.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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