Hibernate Encryption of Database Completely Transparent to Application

Question

I\'m working on a Grails 1.0.4 project that has to be released in less than 2 weeks, and the customer just came up with a requirement that all data in the database should be enc

Answer 1

If the customer is worried about someone physically walking away with the hard drive then using a full disk solution like Truecrypt should work. If there worried about traffic being sniffed then take a look at this part of the mysql documentation on ssl over JDBC. Remember if someone compromises your server all bets are off.