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Nearly everyone owns data of immense value: customer data, construction plans, recipes, product designs and other information. These data are stored in clear text on your storage media. Everyone with file system access is able to read and modify the data. If this data falls into the wrong hands (criminals or competitors) this may result in serious consequences.

With encryption you protect Data At Rest (see the Wikipedia article). That way, the database files are protected against unauthorized access.

BTW XAMPP is installing MariaDB by default.

Does someone of you have experience with setting up rest-data encryption and MariaDB.

Thank you Otto,

I am planning to do encryption on my current project too.. This is a good start to initially understand it .

Hello Otto,

What are the steps you made? could you share ...

Hello Frances,
I am sorry but I didn't setup the server myself.
Now we have working 64 bit version of Apache and MariaDB.
Both as a services.
Now I have to find a way how to secure the key file.
It seems you only need the file at the start of MariaDB.
Best regards,
Otto