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Securing sensitive information: msg#01153

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Subject:	Securing sensitive information

I've scoured the web and can't seem to find any definitive on how to secure sensitive information in a DB, postgresQL in particular.

Most suggestions rely upon encrypting the data. This is all fine and well except for the one nagging question I keep having: how do you protect the password that is needed to decrypt the data? Maybe I'm missing something?

Can anyone recommend any good web documents on how to secure sensitive information?

Jc

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