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Re: [Proposal] Table-level Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Key Management Service (KMS)

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Sehrope Sarkuni <sehrope@jackdb.com>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, "Moon, Insung" <Moon_Insung_i3@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-24T16:05:44Z
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  1. Revamp the WAL record format.

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:04:13PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Well, I think they might do that to reduce encryption overhead.  I think
> > tests have shown that is not an issue, but we will need to test further.
> 
> I seriously doubt that's why and I don't think there's actually much
> value in trying to figure out the "why" here- the question is, do those
> systems answer the check-box requirement that was brought up on the call
> as the justification for this feature?  If so, then clearly not
> everything is required to be encrypted and we shouldn't be stressing
> over trying to do that.

We will stress in trying _not_ to encrypt everything.

> > I am not sure of the downside of encrypting everything, since it leaks
> > the least information and has a minimal user API and code impact.  What
> > is the value of encrypting only the user rows?  Better key control?
> 
> Yes, better key control, and better user API, and avoiding having an

Uh, there is no user API for all-cluster encryption except for the
administrator.

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