| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | 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 22:08:29 |
| Message-ID: | 8b1d2d0f-8c7e-c544-0ebc-a2534f04156a@joeconway.com |
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On 06/20/2018 05:05 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:29:32AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
>>>> Or
>>>> maybe key management is really tied into the separately discussed effort
>>>> to create SQL VARIABLEs somehow.
>>>
>>> Could you elaborate on how key management is tied into SQL VARIABLEs?
>>
>> Well, the key management probably is not, but the SQL VARIABLE might be
>> where the key is stored for use.
>
> I disagree. I would need to understand how an extension actually helps
> here, because it certainly limits flexibility compared to a shell
> command.
That flexibility the shell command gives you is also a huge hole from a
security standpoint.
Joe
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