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>>Perhaps the data you need to search is not the same as the data you might want to encrypt?

Bingo. That would be the correct middle ground. This is why some of the database compromises that have happened are not complete disasters. I know there have been a few instances of systems that had their db's dumped, but passwords were safely protected by appropriate salting solutions.



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