Re: [HACKERS] WIP: Data at rest encryption

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 01:25:00PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > I think the big win of Postgres doing the encryption is that the
> > user-visible file system is no longer a target (assuming OS permissions
> > are bypassed), while for file system encryption it is the storage device
> > that is encrypted.
> 
> If OS permissions are bypassed then the encryption isn't going to help
> because the attacker can just access shared memory.
> 
> The big wins for doing the encryption in PostgreSQL are, as Robert and I
> have both mentioned on this thread already, that it provides
> data-at-rest encryption in an easier to deploy fashion which will work
> the same across different systems and allows the encrypted cluster to be
> transferred more easily between systems.  There are almsot certainly
> other wins from having PG do the encryption, but the above strikes me as
> the big ones, and those are certainly valuable enough on their own for
> us to seriously consider adding this capability.

Since you seem to be trying to shut down discussion, I will simply say I
am unimpressed that this use-case is sufficient justification to add the
feature.

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