hmmm interesting... maybe you can have /var/lib/mysql mounted through encfs?
you could also have the whole logical volume to be encrypted, thats a better idea than encfs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemHowto --- On Mon, 3/1/10, Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [JoLUG-General] MySQL Database Encryption > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 3:31 PM > cause it's too much pain > to have to encrypt every field in every table on every > query, and decrypt it when retrieving. This should be done > at the DB level transparently I think. > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Ibrahim Yakti <[email protected]> > wrote: > > why not encrypt the date itself? > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:13 PM, > Al-Faisal El-Dajani <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am working on a project that contains some sensitive > data. I was > > wondering if anybody ever tried to do database encryption > with MySQL. > > At the very least, if I can do table based encryption that > would work > > as well. Any insights would be deeply appreciated. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### > > http://Jolug.org/ > > http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug > > > > ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam > > http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo > > > > ### Ojuba Linux ### > > http://ojuba.org/ > > > > ### Jordan PHP ### > > http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP > > > > > -- > > ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### > > http://Jolug.org/ > > http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug > > > > ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam > > http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo > > > > ### Ojuba Linux ### > > http://ojuba.org/ > > > > ### Jordan PHP ### > > http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP > > > -- > Al-Faisal El-Dajani > 10/6 > > > > > > -- > > ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### > > http://Jolug.org/ > > http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug > > > > ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam > > http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo > > > > ### Ojuba Linux ### > > http://ojuba.org/ > > > > ### Jordan PHP ### > > http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP -- ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP
