Re: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and encrypted files

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and encrypted files
Date: 2019-10-03 15:58:55
Message-ID: 20191003155855.GB6962@tamriel.snowman.net
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Greetings,

* Peter Eisentraut (peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> On 2019-10-03 16:40, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> As others have said, that sounds wrong to me. I think you need to
> >> encrypt everything.
> > That isn't what other database systems do though and isn't what people
> > actually asking for this feature are expecting to have or deal with.
>
> It is what some other database systems do. Perhaps some others don't.

I looked at the contemporary databases and provided details about all of
them earlier in the thread. Please feel free to review that and let me
know if your research shows differently.

Thanks,

Stephen

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