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April 14, 2004
Protecting Private Information with MySQL
Listening to Peter Wayner presenting on Protecting Private Information with MySQL. This is a lab session, which means that there are computers in the room. Unfortunately there are only 5 computers and maybe 40 people in the room.
The slides for the presentation are on the screens of those 5 computers . . . wait, someone just handed me a thumb drive and I now have the slides.
Solutions for Securing Data:
- use basic permissions
- scramble data
- blur the data a little
- camoflauge the data
- misdirect attackers
- split the information across physical machines
Protecting the Box is Important
- physically protect the machine
- OS level
- good passwords
- firewalls
- encrypt the connection to and from
First Steps with MySQL
- set root password, grant permissions, and don't use root again
Looks like Peter used MySQL 3.23.x for creating the slides, the list of permission options in the slides is not what's in the 4.0.x branch has.
Peter discusses using transclucent databases, highlighting the importance of being informed about cryptography. The presentation gets into hands-on exercise in using MySQL encryption methods to encrypt certain, key pieces of information which will prevent an unauthorized user from putting the data into a complete picture and using it malicously.
Posted by mike at April 14, 2004 4:38 PM
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