Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields

From: tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de
To: Sam Halliday <sam(dot)halliday(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RFE: Transparent encryption on all fields
Date: 2009-04-27 04:30:50
Message-ID: 20090427043050.GB9979@tomas
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On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 03:13:16PM -0700, Sam Halliday wrote:
>
> TrueCrypt is exactly the "encrypted drive" solution. It has problems. They
> are described in this thread.

No. This is about *clients* (i.e. laptops which can be stolen). How
some companies allow their employees to run around with unencrypted
laptops really escapes me (actually it angers me :-(

Encrypting the server drive for the database has some drawbacks,
discussed in this thread.

Regards
- -- tomás
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