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Ask HN: How feasible is it to encrypt user records?
2 points by christiansmith on May 22, 2014 | hide | past | favorite
With all the news around user data theft on an enormous scale recently, I wonder how feasible it would be to encrypt entire user records in storage. I imagine some data stores (e.g., key/value) would be more suitable for this than others. Are there any commercial/FOSS products that encrypt all identifying user data? Has anyone on HN tried implementing something like this? Is there a good reason (aside from obvious programming complexity and performance impact) that it's not a standard practice?


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