Re: [HACKERS] WIP: Data at rest encryption

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:08:05PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 04:56:36PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > how few concerns about this feature's complexity / maintainability
> > impact have been raised.
> 
> Yeah, I guess we will just have to wait to see it since other people are
> excited about it.  My concern is code complexity and usability
> challenges, vs punting the problem to the operating system, though
> admittedly there are some cases where that is not possible.

I know some OS's can create file systems inside files.  Can you encrypt
such file storage as non-root?  I assume that is just too odd.

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