Re: [HACKERS] WIP: Data at rest encryption

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 04:13:57PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> > > While I agree that configuring full disk encryption is not technically
> > > difficult, it requires much more privileged access to the system and
> > > basically requires the support of a system administrator. In addition,
> > > if a volume is not available for encryption, PostgreSQL support for
> > > encryption would still allow for its data to be encrypted and as others
> > > have mentioned can be enabled by the DBA alone.
> > 
> > Frankly I'm having difficulties imagining when it could be a real
> > problem. It doesn't seem to be such a burden to ask a colleague for
> > assistance in case you don't have sufficient permissions to do
> > something. And I got a strong feeling that solving bureaucracy issues of
> > specific organizations by changing PostgreSQL core in very invasive way
> > (keeping in mind testing, maintaining, etc) is misguided.
> 
> In the same time implementing a plugable storage API and then implementing
> encrypted / compressed / whatever storage in a standalone extension using
> this API seems to be a reasonable thing to do. 

Agreed, good point.

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