14.05.2018 14:28, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
Number of combination growth as N^2 at least. Writing of separate plugins for each
possible use case is... boring.
What combinations? Key holder may need to establish connection to client or may not. I see
2 cases here.
Ok, you are right, it is not N^2, just N*2.
A keyholder that pass-through key directly from application.
A keyholder that contain key itself.
A keyholder that contain encrypted key and require passphrase from application.
A keyholder that reads key from predefined file.
A keyholder that reads key from file defined from application.
A keyholder that reads key from predefined file and require passphrase from
application
A keyholder that reads key from file defined by application and require
passphrase.
Add here more places where key can be stored in and you'll get snowball.
When you must write each of these plugins or put all plugins into single module and add
records about each of them into plugins.conf (because otherwise it won't work) or explain
to an ordinary user how to configure this zoo for each encrypted database separately, you
will feel pity that CORE-4482 is never going to be implemented.
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