Re: [Proposal] Table-level Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and KeyManagement Service (KMS) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 02:12:07AM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> FWIW my assumption was that we could just add an "encrypted" flag into
> the main XLogRecord header, and then an extra part with important
> encryption-related data - the key, and the important metadata needed by
> external tools (e.g. relfilenode/block, needed by pg_waldump).
> 
> Then we wouldn't need to reshuffle the WAL, I think.

I was thinking we would just encrypt the entire WAL file, and use the
WAL file name as the IV.

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