On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 09:37:37PM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 6/14/19 6:09 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 02:27:17PM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> >> On 6/13/19 11:07 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> > In addition, while the 8k blocks would use a block cipher, the WAL would
> >> > likely use a stream cipher, and it will be very hard to use multiple
> >> > stream ciphers in a single WAL file.
> >>
> >> I don't understand why we would not just use AES for both.
> >
> > Uh, AES is an encryption cipher. You can use it with block mode, CBC,
> > or stream mode, CTR, GCM; see:
>
>
> AES is a block cipher, not a stream cipher. Yes you can use it in
> different modes, including chained modes (and CBC is what I would pick),
> but I assumed you were talking about an actual stream cipher algorithm.
OK, to be specific, I was thinking of using aes128-cbc for the 8k pages
and aes128-ctr for the WAL.
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