Encrypted Database?

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 05:30:07PM -0600, Linn Kubler wrote:

Hi,

Someone just asked me if Postgres databases are encrypted, does it support
"encrypted database" was the phrase he used. Could someone enlighten me?

Have a look at contrib/pgcrypto. It might do what you need.

A

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Linn Kubler wrote:

Hi,

Someone just asked me if Postgres databases are encrypted, does it support
"encrypted database" was the phrase he used. Could someone enlighten me?

We support encryption of specific data values using /contrib/pgcrypto.
We don't have an all-db encryption. I recommend an encrypted file system
for that.

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"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@ecw2.org> writes:

Someone just asked me if Postgres databases are encrypted, does it support
"encrypted database" was the phrase he used. Could someone
enlighten me?

http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/faq-english.html#4.28

Cheers,

Neil

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