Re: database file encryption.

On 10/23/2011 06:39 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> On 10/22/2011 11:39 AM, nrdb wrote:
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>>> Are you willing to submit a patch for people to review? I am not sure
>>> if the community would want this as backend code or not but it is
>>> definitely something to discuss.
>>>
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>> Yes! but I don't know what the procedure is to do that.
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> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

I will submit the patch in a few days when I have cleaned it up some
more. Basically it patches the FileRead() and FileWrite() in fd.c to
do the encryption and decryption.

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>>>
>>> Others might have different ideas.
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>> I thought one way would be to pass the name of a named pipe in with a
>> command argument and then have some program that asks the user for the
>> password and writes it to the named pipe.
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> Any patch you submit will be subject to quite a bit of discussion so
> be prepared for that. Also it will have to be portable to Windows.
>

I have no idea on making it portable to Windows, I very rarely use it
and know nothing about coding on it. The only problem will be in the
actual encryption/decryption functions, and the key setup.

> JD
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