From tomcaml@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 4 07:52:46 2020
Hello
We are being asked about encrypting SSNs and see that a simple sql such as
select id from t_contact where ssn = '350507267'
goes from lightning quick on returning a result and using an existing index to becoming very slow and doing a table scan to return a row after encryption (looks like it must be un-encrypting all rows to get to the one needed)
SELECT id FROM t_contact WHERE decrypt_char(ssn, 'XXXXXXXXXXXX') = '350507267'
what are the options to quicken the return result - or are there none?