[rt-users] encrypting fields and email

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Thu Sep 30 11:23:58 EDT 2004


On Sep 30, 2004, at 11:02 AM, david.falkenburger at rbc.com wrote:

> I was thinking more along the lines of public and private key 
> technology. If
> I was to use the private key to encrypt all the data in one or more 
> fields,
> a key that I as developer generate, then having access to the database 
> or
>

So, the reader would be required to type the password to the private 
key to view every message?  What a pain.  You can't store it in the 
session or the DBA could get it from there.  This is the dilemma of a 
stateless protocol called HTTP :-)

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

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