Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Re: database encryption
Author Dimitry Sibiryakov
06.11.2010 13:34, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> Also there's a performance issue. Temporary files are being cached by
> the operating system and you have no idea whether they will ever go to
> disk or not. But you'll have to encrypt them anyway, just in case.
> Spending extra CPU cycles every time I/O call happens is bad, but
> spending CPU cycles without I/O is much worse.

And this is another reason why client-side encryption is the best. You are spending
client's CPU for it.

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SY, SD.