Re: Value of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Value of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Date
Msg-id 20191003205517.GM26480@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Value of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 10:26:15AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 12:19 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Just to give more detail.  Initially, there was a desire to store
> > keys in only one place, either in the file system or in database
> > tables.  However, it became clear that the needs of booting the
> > server and crash recovery required file system keys, and
> > per-user/db keys were best done at the SQL level, so that indexing
> > can be used, and logical dumps contain the locked keys.  SQL-level
> > storage allows databases to be completely independent of other
> > databases in terms of key storage and usage.
> 
> Wait, we're going to store the encryption keys with the database?

Encryption keys are fine there so long as decryption keys are
separate.

Best,
David.
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