ggershinsky commented on issue #50969: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/50969#issuecomment-5397564807
Yep, maybe this needs to be re-evaluated (together with the spec, https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/Encryption.md#55-plaintext-footer-mode), now that ~7 years have passed. One of the questions, are there users that need to see footers of encrypted files. Or users that need to access unencrypted columns with having any keys. A low hanging fruit would be to update the comment "Keep redacted metadata version for old readers" to something like "Keep redacted metadata version for plaintext footer mode ". A longer-term option is updating the spec ( to either deprecate the plaintext footer mode, or repurpose it to the usecases described above; the latter requires only text/comment updates). -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
