[rt-users] encrypting fields and email

[Jesse Vincent]

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 the server will not do you any good unless 
> you have the corresponding private key to decrypt. I could distribute 
> the private key to authorized individuals only. So now you would not 
> only have to be authorized to access RT, and the appropriate queue, 
> but would also need the public key available to your browser for 
> decryption.

So would all searching be done on the client side? If so, does that 
mean that I'd have to shovel several gigs of ticket content to the end 
user for searching?