lcar...@ucsd.edu wrote: > Does anyone have experience using the feature in PG 8.4 (maybe earlier > versions too??) to store specific columns in an encrypted format? We are > gathering sensitive data for medical studies and want to use Postgresql, > however, we need to insure that the data is secure to satisfy federal > HIPAA regulations. One way to do that would be to store some or all of it > in an encrypted format.
See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/pgcrypto.html But the tricky part is the key management more so than the encryption. Joe
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