Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught.org>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 15:50:10 EDT

"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/31/07, Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
>
>> The only bulletproof way to do this currently is to write all your
>> stored functions in C and load them as a shared library.
>
> Well, as I pointed out in my post, even that's not bullet-proof. As
> long as decompilers / debuggers etc... exist, then compiling is just a
> small barrier to a good hacker. The only way to win is not to play,
> i.e. keep the code in house.

Very true, I should have said "semi-bulletproof". :)

In addition, the "interesting" parts of a C function would be the SPI queries, which unless further obfuscated would be easily extractable from the library using strings(1).

-Doug

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