On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:03:32AM +1200, Andrej wrote: > 2009/4/26 Sam Halliday <sam.halli...@gmail.com>: > > I'm still talking about theft of machines (particularly laptops) as that is > > a major threat. One need only read the British newspapers to discover story > > after story of articles where "sensitive information was on a laptop which > > was stolen". As pointed out elsewhere, psql + encrypted drive is entirely > > unpractical as no OS is setup to ask for an encrypted drive password on boot > > (similarly for headless machines, user interaction is required). A practical > > solution that accomplishes the same goals as the encrypted drive is > > necessary. > > Buy a higher end thinkpad, it uses a BIOS password and an ASIC > to encrypt the data in hardware, w/o impact on performance.
There are various tools that allow you to do this without specialised hardware, TrueCrypt[1] is one I've used in the past and is very easy for naive users to get their heads around. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ [1] http://www.truecrypt.org/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
