[postgis-users] encryption of PostGIS databases

[Ben Madin]

You can use the pgctrypto functions from contrib, but you might be better off securing the database and connections to it, rather than encrypting the data. Apart from the overhead of encrypting and decrypting the large volumes of data typically associated with geometry, I suspect your indexing would suffer.

cheers

Ben



On 12/05/2011, at 8:30 PM, Malm Paul wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there a way to protect geographical data by encrypt the GIS db, if so that is the impact on performance?
>  
> Kind regards,
> Paul
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