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Anshul Bansal, M.E.S College of Engineering; Shreyans Kering ,M.E.S College of Engineering; V. P VimalDev ,M.E.S College of Engineering; Durva Deshmukh ,M.E.S College of Engineering; Shraddha R. Khonde ,M.E.S College of Engineering

Large amount of data is generated through different applications on a daily basis. Databases are used to store this data as per the requirements. This data contains a lot of personal and confidential data that is needed to me protected from being misused. The best way to protect this data is by encrypting it. In encryption what we do is basically scramble the contents of a respective field of the database with the help of a key. Encryption can serve as a mean to achieve flexibility and privacy of data can also be achieved which is very essential business environments. This paper presents different encryption methods used to encrypt different fields in a PostGRE database.