I agree with Corion's comments.

I would lean more towards using a tokenisation system (especially if dealing with CC details). I also would not download, load and delete a pm file in the manner you suggest. What I would do is make a fast API interface available on that separate machine. This allows you to tightly restrict access and upgrade your secrets easily (or even implement a completely different system, maybe even to provide one-time secrets), along with giving you some additional logging abilities that loading a pm wouldn't necessarily allow.

Imagine if you know that when someone does x on your website that it causes a, b and c to happen, which generates 2 requests to your secrets API. Now if your logging detects that someone doing x has actually generated 4 requests to your secrets API, you've just identified a possible intrusion and you can do something about it before too many customers are potentially compromised.

In reply to Re^3: Effective database column level encryption? by SimonPratt
in thread Effective database column level encryption? by maruhige

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