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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works…

What we have done here is the following:

  • Hidden the keys from non-superuser database users
  • Provided wrappers for authorized users to use encryption and decryption functionalities

To ensure that your sensitive data is not stolen while in transit between the client and the database server, make sure you connect to PostgreSQL either using an SSL-encrypted connection or from localhost.

You also have to trust your server administrators and all the other users with superuser privileges to be sure that your encrypted data is safe. And, of course, you must trust the safety of the entire environment; PostgreSQL can decrypt the data, so any other user or software that has access to the same files can do the same.

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