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Re: WIP: Data at rest encryption

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-06-16T15:41:17Z
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:08:05PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 04:56:36PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > how few concerns about this feature's complexity / maintainability
> > impact have been raised.
> 
> Yeah, I guess we will just have to wait to see it since other people are
> excited about it.  My concern is code complexity and usability
> challenges, vs punting the problem to the operating system, though
> admittedly there are some cases where that is not possible.

I know some OS's can create file systems inside files.  Can you encrypt
such file storage as non-root?  I assume that is just too odd.

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