Koert- I saw a presentation at Hadoop World 2011 where some guys were co-opting Hadoop's compression hooks to do encryption.
http://www.cloudera.com/videos/hadoop-world-2011-presentation-video-security-considerations-for-hadoop-deployments?form=complete http://www.cloudera.com/resource/hadoop-world-2011-presentation-slides-security-considerations-for-hadoop-deployments Josh On Jan 20, 2012 4:09 PM, "Koert Kuipers" <ko...@tresata.com> wrote: > Does anyone know of any work/ideas to encrypt data stored on hdfs? > Ideally both temporary files and final files would be encrypted. Or there > would have to be a mechanism in hdfs to securely wipe temporary files, like > shred in linux. > > So far this is what i found: > https://github.com/geisbruch/HadoopCryptoCompressor > > Best, > Koert >
