I think what we have here is a set of users who want encryption and a
set of developers who don't. In short, an impasse. And in the open
source, an impasse goes in favor of the developers.

'Tis a pity that we never got around to discussion what an encryption
architecture might look like, but again, that's the open source world.

On 11/9/2010 4:35 PM, ettotev wrote:
>
>
>
>
> --- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Roman Rokytskyy<roman@...> wrote:
>>> And last but not least - most competing products already have these
>> Sorry, could you please post links to the documentation to those products where the page level encryption and wire protocol encryption are described?
>>
>> I only know of AES encrypt/decrypt functions in MySQL and the encryption of the field data in Oracle/MS SQL (which use completely different approach)...
>>
> Well, one issue is to define "competing products" ;-)
>
> First come to the mind, especially for the embedded model, MS Access and Excel, which do have file level encryption.
>
> MySQL doesn't have file encryption, but does have SSL support:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/secure-connections.html
>
> Same seems to be the case with PostgreSQL:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ssl-tcp.html
>
> Then come MSSQL, which has both:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb934049%28v=SQL.100%29.aspx
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189067%28v=SQL.90%29.aspx
>
> ... and DB2:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sec.doc/doc/c0005815.html
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sec.doc/doc/c0005815.html
>
> ... and Oracle:
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/advanced-security/index.html
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


--
Jim Starkey
Founder, NimbusDB, Inc.
978 526-1376