Re: Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bob <luckyratfoot@gmail.com> writes:
> > Doesn't that really only save you from having someone come in at the OS
> > level and copying your data files and than moutning them on a differet
> > server/database. A person could still come in to psql as a dba or anyone for
> > that matter with the proper select grants and query off that data and see it
> > in encrypted.
>
> Yeah, the real question here is what threats are you trying to defend
> against.  "I need an encrypted database" is pretty nearly a meaningless
> statement --- first tell us who the attacker is that you're worried about.

We have an encryption section in the documentation now --- please see
that.

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