On 26 Oct 2007 at 9:17, mos wrote:
> I posted this message twice in the past 3 days, and it never gets on the
> mailing list. Why?
> Here it is again:
>
> I have a Text field that contains paragraph text and for security reasons I
> need to have it encrypted. If I do this, how can I still implement full
> text search on it?
> Also, I have a lot of Float columns that need to be protected but the user
> has to use comparison operators like ">" and "<" on them. Any recommendations?
Hi,
This is quite a difficult one, and as usual in the field of security depends on how
valuable
the data is and how difficult you want it to be for an attacker to obtain it.
If you let us know what type of data this is and how well it has to be protected, maybe we
can help more. "security reasons" is a bit vague, but I can understand that you don't want
to give too much away.
I can say one thing though, in order for the data to be indexed by MySQL , it has to be in
an unencrypted form somewhere in the database. There is no way I know to get around
this, but I hope someone can correct me :)
Regards
Ian
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