Security Implementation and Usage
This section describes how to use new functions available in IBM DB2 Universal Database (for UNIX and Windows) to integrate data encryption easily into database applications.
For years, databases have been able to keep unauthorized persons from being able to see the data. This is generally covered by privileges and authorities within the database manager. In today's environments, there is an increasing need for privacy of stored data. This means that, even though a DBA may have complete access to the data in a table, there is information that the owner of the data would not want anyone else to see. This has surfaced in particular with Web-based applications where the user has entered data (such as credit card ...
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