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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:38:55AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
[...]
> It's possible that this could be accomplished by something like Veil,
> or the built-in implementation that's coming in some future version of
> PG (is it scheduled for 8.5 at this point?)
>
> Anyway, if a Veil rule required the user to enter a password that would
> decrypt their key then store it in the session [...]
Still, I don't see much advantage in doing the decryption server-side --
and one disadvantage: if someone hijacks the "live" server, they have
your key.
(The only possible addvantage would be indexing, but you would have to
solve tougher problems: how do you keep the index key protected?
Regards
- -- tomás
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