Re: WIP: Data at rest encryption

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Ants Aasma <ants(dot)aasma(at)eesti(dot)ee>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: Data at rest encryption
Date: 2017-06-13 22:13:33
Message-ID: 20170613221333.GU3151@tamriel.snowman.net
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Peter,

* Peter Eisentraut (peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> On 6/13/17 15:20, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > And then you would need openssl on the other system to decrypt it.
>
> Or make the USB file system encrypted as well? If you're in that kind
> of environment, that would surely be feasible, if not required.

Right, but requiring file system encryption to work on a USB stick
across different types of systems strikes me as actually a higher bar
than requiring openssl to exist on both the source and destination
sides.

Naturally, if the environment you're in has already solved that problem
across the enterprise then it's a good approach, although you might want
to use a different encryption key, perhaps, though hopefully that's
something you'd be able to do pretty easily too.

Thanks!

Stephen

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