Re: "WIP: Data at rest encryption" patch and, PostgreSQL 11-beta3

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Antonin Houska <ah(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Toshi Harada <harada(dot)toshi(at)po(dot)ntt-tx(dot)co(dot)jp>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "WIP: Data at rest encryption" patch and, PostgreSQL 11-beta3
Date: 2019-06-25 12:28:00
Message-ID: 485700a0-98b6-2fe0-fbab-bc789b59dca9@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-06-17 11:23, Antonin Houska wrote:
> I'm thinking how to teach postmaster to accept FEBE protocol connections
> temporarily, just to receive the key. The user applications like pg_ctl,
> initdb or pg_upgrade would retrieve the key / password from the DBA, then
> start postmaster and send it the key.
>
> Perhaps the message format should be a bit generic so that extensions like
> this can use it to receive their keys too.
>
> (The idea of an unix socket or named pipe I proposed upthread is not good
> because it's harder to implement in a portable way.)

How are the requirements here different from ssl_passphrase_command?
Why do we need a new mechanism?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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