| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ants Aasma <ants(dot)aasma(at)eesti(dot)ee>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: Data at rest encryption |
| Date: | 2017-06-13 13:07:49 |
| Message-ID: | babf2042-3a7f-1601-7767-b34707194462@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 6/12/17 17:11, Ants Aasma wrote:
> I'm curious if the community thinks this is a feature worth having?
> Even considering that security experts would classify this kind of
> encryption as a checkbox feature.
File system encryption already exists and is well-tested. I don't see
any big advantages in re-implementing all of this one level up. You
would have to touch every single place in PostgreSQL backend and tool
code where a file is being read or written. Yikes.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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