Re: [HACKERS] Supporting Encryption in Postgresql

2004-09-10 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when Murat Kantarcioglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> would write: > For our research project, I need to implement an encryption support > for Postgressql. At this current phase, I need to at least support > page level encryption In other words, each page that belongs to

Re: [HACKERS] Supporting Encryption in Postgresql

2004-09-09 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Murat Kantarcioglu wrote: For our research project, I need to implement an encryption support for Postgressql. At this current phase, I need to at least support page level encryption In other words, each page that belongs to a certain sensitive table will be stored encrypted on the harddisk. Si

Re: [HACKERS] Supporting Encryption in Postgresql

2004-09-09 Thread Doug McNaught
Paul Tillotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given that the client does not write pages to the disk, this would be > back-end encryption. Just out of curiosity, what threat model does > this sort of encryption protect against? Surely any attacker who can > read the files off the disk can also ge

Re: [HACKERS] Supporting Encryption in Postgresql

2004-09-09 Thread Paul Tillotson
Given that the client does not write pages to the disk, this would be back-end encryption. Just out of curiosity, what threat model does this sort of encryption protect against? Surely any attacker who can read the files off the disk can also get the password used to encrypt them. Or would t

Re: [HACKERS] Supporting Encryption in Postgresql

2004-09-09 Thread Josh Berkus
Murat, > For our research project, I need to implement an encryption support for > Postgressql. At this current phase, I need to at least support page > level Âencryption In other words, each page that belongs to a certain > sensitive table will be stored encrypted on the harddisk. Are you planni

Re: [HACKERS] Supporting Encryption in Postgresql

2004-09-09 Thread Hannu Krosing
On R, 2004-09-10 at 00:03, Murat Kantarcioglu wrote: > My questions are in order to support page level encryption(i,e encrypt > each page before writing back to disk and decrypt each page after we > read from disk.) which parts of the code should be changed? > Our more simply, is /src/backend/sto