On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Timothy W. Grove <tim_gr...@sil.org> wrote: > Hello Folks, > > In a python application that I'm developing I've been asked to add security > to databases that the program might create and access; the database is to be > password protected by its creator. The application uses an SQLite database, > which could be changed for another back-end if that would offer better > security, but I would still like to use an embeddable database file. > > The problem isn't so much the database itself, as I can think of a number of > way to encrypt the data it contains, but some of the data is simply names of > image and video files contained elsewhere in the file-system. Is there > anyway to prevent a user from simply opening up the file-system from outside > of the application and viewing the files? One way that I can think of would > be to encode the image/video files as BLOBS and store them in the database > itself, but apart from that option, can anyone suggest other ways? I'm > currently working with python2.7 under Windows7, but I'm hoping to extend > the application to Linux and Mac also. Thank you for your help.
I don't know much about your system, but just as a hunch I'd say that if this is a major requirement you're screwed. The old maxim: there is no cryptographic solution to the problem in which the attacker and intended recipient are the same person. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
