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

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.

Or from people stealing your file system backups that you leave
lying around in public.

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.

And these are probably the people who will insist that *everything*
is encrypted, even your commit log (unencrypted log? everyone can
read the commits?).

Yours,
Laurenz Albe