Re: Postgres Data Encryption Using LUKS with dm-crypt

From: rakesh goyal <goyal(dot)nitj(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Cat <cat(at)zip(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres Data Encryption Using LUKS with dm-crypt
Date: 2017-05-16 12:31:55
Message-ID: CABtuhqqT+Bcg0xKOkD4+rYka3ApMJciZn25r6TMC0p2P19buHA@mail.gmail.com
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I thought there will be a way to close the LUKS encryption volume. Its
clear to me now , encryption volume has to be in the opened state. LUKS
will help if somebody can hold of physical hard disk. It does not protect
against copying data from Live environment.

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Cat <cat(at)zip(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 08:12:19AM +0000, rakesh goyal wrote:
> > Thanks Cat for quick response. I understand this. Is there any way I can
> > encrypt the data at rest in Postgres using LUKS. Kind find any
> > documentation.
>
> As near as I can tell, you have.
>
> Why are you trying to unmount the filesystem containing the data and
> closing
> the luks encryption?
>
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