How would password protecting without encrypting it be meaningful?
(Answer: It wouldn't)
Look at PGP/GPG encryption, as an example of private/public key
encryption. Feed the encryption program uncompressed data and get either
keyed or password protected data that is encrypted and compressed.
T
I was considering encrypting the data itself. However, that would impact
performance and our ability to compress it.
We are using access now and it is a 5 cd install. I was hoping I could get
away with password protecting the files to provide
some security.
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Since this database will be distributed, our users will be
administrators.
If they are able to copy the files to another computer and
set up mysql
themselves, they
if the data is the concern, not the data structure, why not encrypt the data itself?
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Since this database will be distributed, our users will be administrators.
If they are able to copy the files to another computer and set up mysql
themselves, they could get access to the entire database directly and export
any or all data. Configuring the service to run as a different user would
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Subject: Re: how do i encrypt the .frm file with a password
This will be distributed on Windows computers and not unix/linux.
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This will be distributed on Windows computers and not unix/linux.
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> I need to provide some security to a database that I am working on. This
> database will be distributed and I need to prevent users from being able
to
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At 12:45 -0400 5/11/04, David Crane wrote:
I need to provide some security to a database that I am working on. This
database will be distributed and I need to prevent users from being able to
simply copy the files and being able to have complete access to it. I want
to do this: "Encrypt the `.frm'
David
I suggest you need to go back to first principles on Unix security,
applications, and Mysql users.
Firstly and Mysql user is not necessarily a Unix user and vica-versa.
The simplest way to prevent anyone being able to access a file in Unix is
simply to remove the relevant permissions from
