On 21/05/18 15:01, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 05/21/18 09:57, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
>> On 21/05/18 14:35, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> What MySQL (from mid-5.7 on) does for tablespace encryption might be of
>>> note here.  MySQL uses a fixed table key for each encrypted InnoDB
>>> table, but encrypts the table keys with a master key which is
>>> periodically rotated.  This allows regular rotation of the master
>>> encryption key that protects all of the table keys, without having to
>>> decrypt and re-encrypt possibly terabytes of table data.
>>
>> The equivalent in PGP is to replace the asymmetric encryption layer but
>> keep the same symmetric session key. But this assumes that the symmetric
>> encryption remains sound. In the efail scenaroio at least, we also
>> probably want to replace the symmetric algorithm (3DES, CAST5).
> 
> 
> However, that would probably be a one-time operation, not a mopnthly
> rotation.

Sure, but can a rotator detect and handle the need for such one-time
operations? It would be very easy to set up a key rotator, leave it
running and then blithely assume that everything is Just Fine...

-- 
Andrew Gallagher

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