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Discussion on: Encrypting your users’ data is no longer optional

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Dimitri Merejkowsky

This is an interesting thought experiment

Thanks for your feedback!. As for encrypting databases, you have to realize you cannot encrypt indexed columns.

Some ideas:

  • Don't encrypt metadata that is required server-side
  • Do search client-side, or build an encrypted index

Cheers!