On 11/24/06, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Friday 24 November 2006 05:37, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> Precisely - MS makes a very strong (and valid) point of saying that once
> 'the bad guys' have physical access to your box, the machine is owned.
>
> The was a (very cool) presentation in Ruxcon (ruxcon.org) this year
about
> hacking into someone's machine via Firewire. And even if it was an
exploit,
> neither the researcher/hacker nor MS would consider it "security issue",
> because to use this FW attack you need physical access... ie, you've
lost
> the battle already, it's just a matter of picking your method of
breaking
> in.

I think that's  a bit complacent of MS, given that most instances of their
OS
don't run on servers.

If a desktop machine has encrypted partitions, it is protected against
someone
stealing it and breaking in at their convenience. Reading data from a
running
machine, shouldn't be as convenient and inconspicuous as plugging-in a
cable.
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But what about database encryption? Is it possible to encrypt mySQL database
and what is the best method to encrypt which does not affect the
performance?

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Thanks!

BR / vj
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