| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Antonin Houska <ah(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Moon, Insung" <Moon_Insung_i3(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [Proposal] Table-level Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Key Management Service (KMS) |
| Date: | 2019-06-16 13:46:26 |
| Message-ID: | 20190616134626.25woo5jfw3bmg4um@momjian.us |
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 09:45:09AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 07:07:20AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> > And although I'm not proposing this for the first implementation, yet
> > another reason is I might want to additionally control "transparent
> > access" to data based on who is logged in. That could be done by
> > layering an additional key on top of the per-tablespace key for example.
> >
> > The bottom line in my mind is encrypting the entire database with a
> > single key is not much different/better than using filesystem
> > encryption, so I'm not sure it is worth the effort and complexity to get
> > that capability. I think having the ability to encrypt at the tablespace
> > level adds a lot of capability for minimal extra complexity.
>
> I disagree.
I will add that OpenSSL has been removing features and compatibility
because the added complexity had hidden exploits that they could not
have anticipated.
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