Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields

From: Sam Halliday <sam(dot)halliday(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields
Date: 2009-04-27 14:03:08
Message-ID: A2665B8C-4195-448E-B42F-DE2E42A2AF1C@gmail.com
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On 27 Apr 2009, at 13:55, Sam Mason wrote:
> Allowing multiple users/encryption keys access the same database seems
> problematic; how would you allow catalogue access and enforce unique
> or
> other constraints if the server couldn't look to see what's there.
> Not
> sure what you're after here though.

Any valid key should have full access (i.e. this isn't about access
control). As a first approximation, a single key would do the trick.
As a more rigorous solution, there are ways to encrypt data allowing
multiple keys to decrypt.

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