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> How do you propose maintaining backward compatibility?
> 
> >  > > Local data encrpytion using the plaintext keys
> > Ditto.  This is a client issue, probably a 20 minute job if we decide on a
> > cipher.
> 
> Again, we need to be clear on how backward compatibility is maintained.
Well, unfortunately, there really isn't an idea of backward compatibility
in crypto.  If we switch ciphers, all that data is useless to clients that
don't support it.  We might consider a metadata field that informs the
client which cipher was used when the data was inserted, since doing so
doesn't harm the security any.

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