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

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 09:45:09AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 07:07:20AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> > And although I'm not proposing this for the first implementation, yet
> > another reason is I might want to additionally control "transparent
> > access" to data based on who is logged in. That could be done by
> > layering an additional key on top of the per-tablespace key for example.
> > 
> > The bottom line in my mind is encrypting the entire database with a
> > single key is not much different/better than using filesystem
> > encryption, so I'm not sure it is worth the effort and complexity to get
> > that capability. I think having the ability to encrypt at the tablespace
> > level adds a lot of capability for minimal extra complexity.
> 
> I disagree.

I will add that OpenSSL has been removing features and compatibility
because the added complexity had hidden exploits that they could not
have anticipated.

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