Re^2: What *are* the best ways to encrypt data?

I can't really figure out why you would want to encrypt these files on the server.

It's not a matter of "trust" but of trying to comply with still-somewhat-vague HIPAA guidelines for some patient records. Thanks for your reply.

—Brad
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G. K. Chesterton

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Re^3: What are the best ways to encrypt data? by Joost (Canon) on Aug 27, 2004 at 12:42 UTC
Well, if your web-system doesn't need to READ the data (assuming you're reading it with another, not publically accessible system), you could use a public/private key encryption like PGP, so you can encrypt the data on the server, but only decrypt it using another key only known to the other system. Joost. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]