Re: Hiding data in postgresql

Wow, this is really an idea I can work with.

I know this is getting really brainstorming, but do you think it is possible
to apply steganography (hiding data in pictures) tactics to the columns of a
database?

Regards
Hector

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Peter Hunsberger <
peter(dot)hunsberger(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Hector Beyers <hqbeyers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> > does ANYONE have any tips on hiding data on a database server? This means
> > that data is stored in places that is not necessarily picked up in the
> > schema of the database. I am doing some research on databases and need
> some
> > direction.
> > Any help or direction will be highly appreciated.
>
> Let me guess: an attempt at security by obscurity?
>
> I suppose you could always create a couple of columns such that some
> function applied over them produced the real result (. You could even
> actually store this in an index, so although you could never see the
> result directly (except in a dump) queries to get at it might perform
> half reasonably.
>
> --
> Peter Hunsberger
>