Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/08/05 23:51

Martin (0_0_0_0_@pacbell.net) writes:
> What occured to me is that, perhaps, one can create a RAM-disk on the fly,
> tell it to be encrypted and move/copy the DB into it on application start.
> Then the OS would take care of the matter? On application termination the
> RAM disk would be destroyed.

Yes, but will the RAM disk is active, the data is accessible unencrypted.

> My application would more than likely be single user. It made me wonder
> how high-security DB's are handled. It seems to me that data is, for
> the most part, fully exposed.

As I indicated, the key is to encrypt discriminantly.


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