Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Re: Encryption |
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Author | Hannes Streicher |
Post date | 2009-06-17T07:06:10Z |
Guten Tag Emil Totev,
am Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2009 um 08:43 schrieben Sie:
Firebird is using RunLengthEncoding to store Data on Disk and retrieve it , so by
just replacing the RLE Code with an encryption/Decryption algorithm you are up
and running ,
"only" problem left will be Key Management
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Hannes Streicher mailto:HStreicher@...
am Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2009 um 08:43 schrieben Sie:
> I remember seeing somewhere a suggestion that Firebird couldi may be way off here , but :
> already support page-level encryption by two user-defined functions
> to encode the page before writing it and decode it after reading. I
> guess this is the way to go without losing any engine functionality.
> Please if anyone has better memories or actual knowledge, comment on this.
Firebird is using RunLengthEncoding to store Data on Disk and retrieve it , so by
just replacing the RLE Code with an encryption/Decryption algorithm you are up
and running ,
"only" problem left will be Key Management
--
Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen
Hannes Streicher mailto:HStreicher@...