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To be fair, doing digital signatures inside a database is a really weird use case. I'm not sure why you'd want to generate them there, instead of doing it else
by juliangoldsmith 8y ago
To be fair, doing digital signatures inside a database is a really weird use case. I'm not sure why you'd want to generate them there, instead of doing it elsewhere.
- hnarn 8y agoI don't understand what the author is trying to do. It feels like a classic XY problem[1] where the author just decided at some point that "I need digital signatures in the database" rather than focusing on what the actual problem to be solved is. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
- nileshtrivedi 8y agoSee my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18993599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18993599
- hnarn 8y agoIt's not just a little frustrating that even after reading that, I still have no idea what the purpose is of this change. Why does the database need to be encrypted? Is the database entries encrypted with different keys based on the user? Why does the encryption need to happen in the database?