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Re: Securing data from Database Admin

Subject: Re: Securing data from Database Admin
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:48:50 +0100
On 2008-03-27 Ali, Saqib wrote:
How about just encrypting the fields in the database? This way the
application and application developers will have access to usable
(i.e. decrypted) data whereas the Database Administrators will only
see encrypted data but will still be able to perform their job
(backup, restore etc).

And to actually work with the data you'd have to retrieve the contents
of entire tables from the database, decrypt them on the client and then
run your actual query on the now-local data. IOW you lose almost any
advantage a database gives you.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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