Re: [Proposal] Table-level Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Key Management Service (KMS)

From: Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Moon, Insung" <Moon_Insung_i3(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Proposal] Table-level Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Key Management Service (KMS)
Date: 2018-06-20 22:09:52
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:06:56PM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 06/20/2018 05:09 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:49:20AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> know the ordering of the values under whatever ordering semantics
> >> apply to that index. It's unclear to me how useful such information
> >
> > I don't think an ordered index is possible, only indexing of encrypted
> > hashes, i.e. see this and the next slide:
>
> It is possible with homomorphic encryption -- whether we want to support
> that in core is another matter.

It's also possible using DNSSEC NSEC3-style designs.

Nico
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