Re: Postgres security issue - protecting datafiles

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On Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 Zvi Fer wrote:
> I have another solution, which i tried to avoid : my company provides
> file/folder-level encryption . i can apply this encryption with
> specific configuration for the postgres processes . this way - even
> the root cannot access the data, the only one that can access the
> database-files is the owner of the database (which can be the DBA ,
> but can be some1 else as well...)

And where is the decrypt key stored? If you crypt a folder, you need the 
key, but root must be able to access the key - or is it hard coded into 
software?

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