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Timothy Madden <terminatorul@gmail.com> wrote:

> The machine does not have internet and it will not be trivial for the
> bad guy to install anything there.
> [...]

Then why bother encrypting the database if $BADGUY cannot
access it without your installed application anyhow?

Tim