Re: Re: Secure data management

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Tommy Pham <tommyhp2@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@3ft9.com> wrote: >> >  As for the overhead I very much doubt there's much difference between >> > that and the overhead of prepared statements. >> >> Probably not. As an aside, I'm really struggling to find a case where >> it'd be worth base64-encoding the queries like that unless you were >> both concerned about someone sniffing your queries over the wire and >> sure that they wouldn't think to base-64 decode them. Not to mention >> that if your grand idea to prevent eavesdropping is simple transforms, > > If that's the case, then SSL would be a better solution since it also > protects the authentication process.  In then end, I still don't see base64 > as a viable solution. *nods*. I didn't mention encryption because I figured it was the obvious solution there.