Re: Encrypted storage

[Martin Sarsale <martin () emepe3 net>]

I found this, some months ago

A Database Encryption Solution That Is Protecting Against External And
Internal Threats, And Meeting Regulatory Requirements
http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=715 

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 17:38, Jeffrey Koniszewski wrote:
> I was wondering (because customers have asked me) whether anyone is configuring their database to store all 
> information encrypted. Databases have this capability but the overhead can be so heavy that vendors don't recommend 
> using it generically. Also, if most of the data is not sensitive it is a lot of work to protect small amounts of 
> data. Is anyone aware of someone using this capability? Under what circumstances? What's the performance hit? What 
> other gotchas? How about encrypted communication to the DB from the app server?

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