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Re: Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

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Bob <luckyratfoot@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Doesn't that really only save you from having someone come in at the OS 
> level and copying your data files and than moutning them on a differet 
> server/database. A person could still come in to psql as a dba or anyone for 
> that matter with the proper select grants and query off that data and see it 
> in encrypted. 

Yeah, the real question here is what threats are you trying to defend
against.  "I need an encrypted database" is pretty nearly a meaningless
statement --- first tell us who the attacker is that you're worried about.

			regards, tom lane

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