[ZODB-Dev] Feature Request: Database Encryption

[Kapil Thangavelu]

perhaps ty sarna's old compressed storage would be useful as a guide..

http://zope.org/Members/tsarna/CompressedStorage

its a fairly trivial thing to implement encrypting the pickles, which 
would safeguard the object state. but of what real utility it would in 
terms of security, i dunno.

-kapil

On Aug 20, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Ricardo Olenewa wrote:

> I'm probably not the first to request this, but:
>
> Are there any plans to build strong encryption (AES, perhaps) into 
> ZODB? From a
> security perspective, this would be an excellent addition.
>
> I've read some year-old chatter about placing data.fs on an encrypted 
> file
> system, which is a great idea, but only one part of an adequate 
> solution if
> you're looking for strong security. An encrypted file system only 
> protects you
> against physical theft of your unmounted file system.
>
> In any case, some way to encrypt the entire ZODB would be great. Some 
> way to
> encrypt records by user would be even better, but probably not worth 
> effort.
>
>
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