Re: Encrypted databases
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:43:57 -0400
Message-ID: <474b05e3$0$5259$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
>>On 23 Nov., 20:09, "Roy Hann" <specia..._at_processed.almost.meat> wrote:
>>
>>>If I wanted to start investigating encrypted databases and built-in
>>>support
>>>for encrypted content in databases, where might I go? I'd prefer to begin
>>>with something reasonably colloquial that just surveys the issues and the
>>>possible approaches and architectures, without getting into the actual
>>>business of encryption.
>>>
>>>This is topical in the UK this week, but that's not the reason I'm
>>>asking.
>>>(Some minor government robot in the Revenue not only sent the
>>>confidential
>>>bank details of most of the country to someone who didn't ask for them
>>>and
>>>didn't want them, he put the unencrypted CD in the post and it
>>>disappeared.)
>>>
>>>Roy
>>
>>In oracle you can use Transparent data encryption
>>http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/search?remark=quick_search&word=transparent+data+encryption&tab_id=&format=ranked
>>
>>However technologies cannot protect from absolute stupidity of people
>>(as it seems it was in above mentioned case judging from newspapers).
>>Also remember that there isn't limits for stupidity, Darwin award each
>>year usually confirms that.
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:43:57 -0400
Message-ID: <474b05e3$0$5259$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
Roy Hann wrote:
> "Gints Plivna" <gints.plivna_at_gmail.com> wrote in message > news:362baa94-d7f1-4644-b347-9fcb81ec8e80_at_b15g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... >
>>On 23 Nov., 20:09, "Roy Hann" <specia..._at_processed.almost.meat> wrote:
>>
>>>If I wanted to start investigating encrypted databases and built-in
>>>support
>>>for encrypted content in databases, where might I go? I'd prefer to begin
>>>with something reasonably colloquial that just surveys the issues and the
>>>possible approaches and architectures, without getting into the actual
>>>business of encryption.
>>>
>>>This is topical in the UK this week, but that's not the reason I'm
>>>asking.
>>>(Some minor government robot in the Revenue not only sent the
>>>confidential
>>>bank details of most of the country to someone who didn't ask for them
>>>and
>>>didn't want them, he put the unencrypted CD in the post and it
>>>disappeared.)
>>>
>>>Roy
>>
>>In oracle you can use Transparent data encryption
>>http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/search?remark=quick_search&word=transparent+data+encryption&tab_id=&format=ranked
>>
>>However technologies cannot protect from absolute stupidity of people
>>(as it seems it was in above mentioned case judging from newspapers).
>>Also remember that there isn't limits for stupidity, Darwin award each
>>year usually confirms that.
> > Thanks to you and to Cimode. > > As I mentioned, my curiosity about this has nothing to do with the recent > incident. (It was, as you suggest, something truly worthy of a Darwin > Award.) > > Roy
How so? Did the government robot die from the ordeal? Received on Mon Nov 26 2007 - 18:43:57 CET