MySQL数据库带有加密的文件系统来存储图像

Question

I am busy building an application that stores images of users in a filesystem,which can then be accessed by the database.

As the images should be confidential, is there a way to encrypt the filesystem and be able to link to the images from the database? I am using PHP, MySQL, Apache, Windows.

Thank you for your time!

Answer 1

This is not a MySQL problem. You should store file references in your MySQL tables and handle the file encryption yourself. IOW, your app should encrypt and decrypt the images at the application level and only these encrypted files should be moved around and stored. Only the app can then display the contents of an image file. No plain readable form of the image appears anywhere else.