[rt-users] encrypting fields and email

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Thu Sep 30 10:36:44 EDT 2004


On Sep 30, 2004, at 10:27 AM, david.falkenburger at rbc.com wrote:

> Wondering if anyone has done any work encrypting fields using pgp. We 
> would
> like to ensure that certain data stays strictly confidential, not even 
> dba
> should be able to see the data in the database. Only way I can see 
> that is
> to ensure encrypting and decrypting data real time using keys.
>

And how are you going to keep the DBA from seeing the key in plaintext 
right there in your program that needs to do the decryption?


Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806

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