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Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mar 26 2008 02:36PM
hibbard wapa gov (3 replies)
Securing data from Database Admin Mar 27 2008 06:40PM
WALI (hkhasgiwale gmail com) (2 replies)
Re: Securing data from Database Admin Mar 27 2008 09:34PM
postmaster (postmaster impole com)
Re: Securing data from Database Admin Mar 27 2008 08:17PM
Ali, Saqib (docbook xml gmail com) (1 replies)
Re: Securing data from Database Admin Mar 27 2008 10:48PM
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (bugtraq planetcobalt net)
On 2008-03-27 Ali, Saqib wrote:
> How about just encrypting the fields in the database? This way the
> application and application developers will have access to usable
> (i.e. decrypted) data whereas the Database Administrators will only
> see encrypted data but will still be able to perform their job
> (backup, restore etc).

And to actually work with the data you'd have to retrieve the contents
of entire tables from the database, decrypt them on the client and then
run your actual query on the now-local data. IOW you lose almost any
advantage a database gives you.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
--
"All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches
becoming available."
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Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mar 27 2008 01:39AM
Thomas Jespersen (front243 stofanet dk)
Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mar 26 2008 03:36PM
Razi Shaban (razishaban gmail com) (1 replies)
Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mar 26 2008 08:26PM
Simon Jolle sjolle (urandomdev gmail com) (2 replies)
Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mar 27 2008 01:46AM
Thomas Jespersen (front243 stofanet dk) (1 replies)
Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mar 27 2008 02:31PM
Razi Shaban (razishaban gmail com)
Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mar 26 2008 09:37PM
Razi Shaban (razishaban gmail com) (1 replies)
Re: File sharing with Bittorrent: what possible security threads? Mar 27 2008 01:43AM
Thomas Jespersen (front243 stofanet dk)







 

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