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

Or on your laptop



On 3/4/19 11:55 AM, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> Masahiko Sawada wrote:
>> Why do people want to just encrypt everything? For satisfying some
>> security compliance?
> I'd say that TDE primarily protects you from masked ninjas that
> break into your server room and rip out the disks with your database
> on them.
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> Or from people stealing your file system backups that you leave
> lying around in public.
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> My guess is that this requirement almost always comes from security
> departments that don't know a lot about the typical security threats
> that databases face, or (worse) from lawmakers.
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> And these are probably the people who will insist that *everything*
> is encrypted, even your commit log (unencrypted log? everyone can
> read the commits?).
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> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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