Re: Database Encryption (now required by law in Italy)

From: "Ryan J(dot) Cavicchioni" <ryan(dot)cavicchioni(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database Encryption (now required by law in Italy)
Date: 2005-04-29 12:35:12
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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Silvana Di Martino <silvanadimartino(at)tin(dot)it> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>We just think it is easier and safer to encrypt the whole database, or even
>>the whole disk, than try to understand what the law actually means.
>
>
> BTW politicians should have to be enforced to tell people what their
> laws really mean. Representants voting for some law they cannot explain
> to plain people should get corporal punishment.
>
> cu

I may be late to the conversation. Sorry if I am but there are some
cryptography tools in the contrib/pgcrypto folder in the source tree.

Hope that helps.

- Ryan

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