Re: XTS cipher mode for cluster file encryption

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 07:45:06AM +0100, Antonin Houska wrote:
> > With pg_upgrade modified to preserve the relfilenode, tablespace oid, and
> > database oid, we are now closer to implementing cluster file encryption
> > using XTS. I think we have a few steps left:
> >
> > 1. modify temporary file I/O to use a more centralized API
> > 2. modify the existing cluster file encryption patch to use XTS with a
> > IV that uses more than the LSN
> > 3. add XTS regression test code like CTR
> > 4. create WAL encryption code using CTR
> >
> > If we can do #1 in PG 15 I think I can have #2 ready for PG 16 in July.
> > The feature wiki page is:
> >
> > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Transparent_Data_Encryption
> >
> > Do people want to advance this feature forward?
>
> I confirm that we (Cybertec) do and that we're ready to spend more time on the
> community implementation.

Well, I sent an email a week ago asking if people want to advance this
feature forward, and so far you are the only person to reply, which I
think means there isn't enough interest in this feature to advance it.

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