Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Re: database encryption
Author Jim Starkey
On 11/8/2010 11:22 AM, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> 08.11.2010 17:19, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>> On 11/08/10 19:16, Jim Starkey wrote:
>>> On 11/8/2010 11:13 AM, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
>>>> 08.11.2010 16:32, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>>>>> Sorry - may be we can start with line encryption? :)
>>>> One question: should the line encryption work after SQZ, before SQZ or instead of
>>>> SQZ?.. The latter one seem to have some advantages...
>>>>
>>> Sorry, there's been some confusion in terms. By "line encryption" I
>>> mean communication line at the protocol level.
>> Just to make sure - I too.
> Oops, I was sure that it means record-level encryption.
>

Record level encryption would be extremely difficult to implement, would
perform much worse than page level encryption, and would screw up
indexes beyond any reasonable conception.


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