From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko(dot)sawada(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Kincaid <tomjohnkincaid(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: storing an explicit nonce |
Date: | 2021-05-25 20:34:10 |
Message-ID: | CAOuzzgqf0Cog08bm8gpu=xpGVvBGFJvHH8jjpotZGqLjKGw1hA@mail.gmail.com |
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Greetings,
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 15:09 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 2:45 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Well, if we create a separate nonce counter, we still need to make sure
> > it doesn't go backwards during a crash, so we have to WAL log it
>
> I think we don't really need a global counter, do we? We could simply
> increment the nonce every time we write the page. If we want to avoid
> using the same IV for different pages, then 8 bytes of the nonce could
> store a value that's different for every page, and the other 8 bytes
> could store a counter. Presumably we won't manage to write the same
> page more than 2^64 times, since LSNs are limited to be <2^64, and
> those are consumed more than 1 byte at a time for every change to any
> page anywhere.
The nonce does need to be absolutely unique for a given encryption key and
therefore needs to be global in some form.
Thanks!
Stephen
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