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Published inOct 2012
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ISBN-139781849685269
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Adrian Neagu
Adrian Neagu
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Adrian Neagu

Adrian Neagu has over ten years of experience as a database administrator, mainly with DB2 and Oracle databases. He is an Oracle Certified Master 10g, Oracle Certified Professional 9i, 10g, and 11g, IBM DB2 Certified Administrator version 8.1.2 and 9, IBM DB2 9 Advanced Certified Administrator 9, and Sun Certified System Administrator Solaris 10. He is an expert in many areas of database administration such as performance tuning, high availability, replication, backup, and recovery. In his spare time, he likes to cook, take photos, and to catch big pikes with huge jerkbaits and bulldawgs.
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Using block device encryption


By using block device encryption the data is encrypted and decrypted at block-device level. The block device can be formatted with a filesystem. The decryption is performed once the filesystem is mounted by the operating system, transparently for users. This type of encryption protects best against media theft and can be used for datafile placement. In this recipe we will add a new disk and implement block-level encryption with Linux Unified Key Setup-on-disk-format (LUKS).

Getting ready

All steps will be performed with nodeorcl1 as root.

How to do it...

  1. Shut down nodeorcl1, then add a new disk to the nodeorcl1 system and boot it. Our new device will be seen by the operating system as /dev/sdb. Next, create a new partition /dev/sdb1 using fdisk as follows:

    [root@nodeorcl1 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
    WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
             switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
             sectors (command 'u...
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Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's Cookbook
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Adrian Neagu

Adrian Neagu has over ten years of experience as a database administrator, mainly with DB2 and Oracle databases. He is an Oracle Certified Master 10g, Oracle Certified Professional 9i, 10g, and 11g, IBM DB2 Certified Administrator version 8.1.2 and 9, IBM DB2 9 Advanced Certified Administrator 9, and Sun Certified System Administrator Solaris 10. He is an expert in many areas of database administration such as performance tuning, high availability, replication, backup, and recovery. In his spare time, he likes to cook, take photos, and to catch big pikes with huge jerkbaits and bulldawgs.
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