Re: WIP: Data at rest encryption

Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>

From: Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Shawn Wang <shawn.wang@highgo.ca>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>
Date: 2019-09-03T17:30:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 10:21 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
wrote:

> On 2019-Aug-02, Shawn Wang wrote:
>
> > Hi Antonin,
> > It is very glad to see the new patch. I used the public patches a long
> time ago.
> > I did some tests like the stream replication, much data running,
> temporary files encryption.
> > I found that there is an issue in the
> src/backend/storage/file/encryption.c. You should put block_size =
> EVP_CIPHER_CTX_block_size(ctx); under the #ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING.
> > There is some problem to merge your patches to the latest kernel in the
> pg_ctl.c.
>
> Is a new, fixed version going to be posted soon?  It's been a while.
>
> Also, apologies if this has been asked before, but: how does this patch
> relate to the stuff being discussed in
> https://postgr.es/m/031401d3f41d$5c70ed90$1552c8b0$@lab.ntt.co.jp ?
>
> Yes, it is related to that, but we don't have that on our agenda in a
weekly meeting.  It has
many conflicting points about what we are doing. Swada / Bruce can comment
on that.


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Ibrar Ahmed

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