On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:00 PM, oleg yusim <olegyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Important: let's assume data at rest is encrypted using EFS and data at > transit is encrypted using ciphers, provided by OpenSSL. > > So, with that in mind, please, help me to understand movement and location > of the data between the moment when it is pulled from file system and > encrypted as network package going through the SSL tunnel. > > And reversing it - between the moment network package arrived through the > SSL tunnel is decrypted and the moment its content is placed into the file > system. At all times the data is present only in files owned by the OS user which runs the database server or in RAM allocated to processes run by that user. Files and RAM are freed without overwrite; we count on the OS to not gratuitously show the old values to processes making new allocations. -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
