I wondered if there is any facility already existing in Lucene for encrypting the values stored into the index and still being able to search them?
If not, I wondered if anyone could tell me if this is impossible to implement, and if not to point me perhaps in the right direction? I imagine that just the text values and document fields to index (and optionally store) in the index would be either encrypted on the fly by Lucene using perhaps a public/private key mechanism. When a user issues a search query to Lucene they would also provide a key so that Lucene can decrypt the values as necessary to try and answer their query. Thanks Adam. -- Adam Retter skype: adam.retter tweet: adamretter http://www.adamretter.org.uk
