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Re: MySQL and encryption
Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Yuval El-Hanany wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > a customer asked me whether MySQL can keep its data encrypted on the disk.
> > Does anyone know if that's possible in MySQL or perhaps there's a file system
> > driver which can do that?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Yuval.
> >
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>
> RTFM "MySQL language Reference" page 115, ENCRYPT (you need crypt).
>
I've RTFMed before mailing to the list ofcourse. (BTW encrypt is irreversible, the
correct function would be encode and decode). The problem is I'm trying to avoid
modifying the application, and using an underlying layer instead.
>
> or
>
> Use a client side encryption technique as described in "Java
> Cryptography".
>
> There are many ways to skin this cat and MySQL has no inherent limitations
> on the type of data you can store.
>
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