Re: Adding Encryption to lucene indexes

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Zakian
Hey, thanks for your reply Shaneal, I do have a person to consult with about the crypto code, it is just a matter of figuring out which streams to grab. So encrypting all of the write operations in IndexOutput (and DataOutput) and decrypting to plaintext in IndexInput on the way out should let me

Re: Adding Encryption to lucene indexes

2011-08-12 Thread Shaneal Manek
For starters, you probably shouldn't be writing your own crypto code (unless you're a professional cryptographer, or your project has access to one to audit your code). See, for example, http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/7/22/if-youre-typing-the-letters-a-e-s-into-your-code-youre-doing.html.

Adding Encryption to lucene indexes

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Zakian
Hello, I am currently adding Lucene (in combination with hibernate search) to a medical record service. As such, I need to encrypt the indexes so that unauthorized people don't have access to them by bypassing the system's database security. I was wondering if anyone had a) implemented a security

Re: please help me

2011-08-12 Thread Mourad K
Hi, It is possible to use SOLR which only requires schema configurations for use (based on Lucene). You'll still need some java to look at the source code and understand things better. But it's potentially a Java free route to make it work for you as a search solution. Hope that helps, Mou O

Re: please help me

2011-08-12 Thread Yakob
the problem you're having is that you haven't learn about java yet. you need to know about imports statement, about jars file that contain java classes. you need to learn about this first then you can run java. the LIA (lucene in action) package that you're downloaded can all be run if you put them