Database encryption

Luc Bouganim (1, 2) , Yanli Guo (1, 2)

1 PRISM - Parallélisme, Réseaux, Systèmes, Modélisation
2 SMIS - Secured and Mobile Information Systems

Database encryption refers to the use of encryption techniques to transform a plain text database into a (partially) encrypted database, thus making it unreadable to anyone except those who possess the knowledge of the encryption key(s).

Domaines: Base de données [cs.DB]

Luc Bouganim, Yanli Guo. Database encryption. S. Jajodia and H. van Tilborg. Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, Springer, pp.1-9, 2009, 978-1-4419-5905-8. ⟨10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_677⟩. ⟨hal-00623915⟩