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Ashish Singhi commented on HBASE-13002:
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Thanks [[email protected]] for the review.
We had a requirement from a user to use some other cipher encryption algorithm
and not AES. So we thought of making it configurable.
bq. We don't want key wrapping to use a potentially insecure algorithm.
Yes, definitely. Should I explicitly mention it somewhere in the code or just
add in release note will do ?
bq. Remove this part or introduce a configuration for separately defining what
algorithm is used for key wrapping.
Yes, the new configuration {{hbase.crypto.key.algorithm}} is introduced for
that. So whichever user configures it to will be used for key wrapping.
bq. The test is "TestAES", so substituting another cipher doesn't make sense:
Yes, addressed in the v1 patch.
Please review and let me know if anything I missed to address.
> Make encryption cipher configurable
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> Key: HBASE-13002
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13002
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ashish Singhi
> Assignee: Ashish Singhi
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.0, 0.98.11
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> Attachments: HBASE-13002-v1.patch, HBASE-13002.patch
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> Make encryption cipher configurable currently it is hard coded to AES, so
> that user can configure his/her own algorithm.
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