Greetings,
I need to securely store lots of sensitive contact information and
notes in a (MySQL or other freely available) database that will be
stored on a database server which I do not have direct access to.
This database will be accessed by a PHP application that I am
developing. However, I
Just do all your searching/sorting in PHP.. it would be slower, and if your
dataset is very large (sounds like it might be the case) it would be
impossible.. So that might be out of the question..
A bit of system engineering might find a solution too, consider which fields
you need to
Oh! Also, there's built in mysql functions for encryption, I forgot about
that, so you can still search, like this:
insert into table set name_field = AES_ENCRYPT('Some name', 'secret key');
select * from table where AES_DECRYPT(name_field,'secret key') LIKE '%some';
Make sense? You'll want an
