https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34976

--- Comment #6 from David Cook <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #3)
> Using one encryption key for whole Koha is obviously more convenient than
> carrying a large keychain but is unsafer too. If you get that key, you can
> decrypt everything.

Agreed.

> Interesting question though would be: How would you get one key and not the
> others? And underlying, is koha-conf the best place to save them? Easy to
> ask, harder to answer. If you would get secrets from some vault, you still
> need a token for that, etc.

I'm not sure I understand this question. Do you mean from a system perspective
or an attacker perspective?

If it's the system perspective, you have to store a key id (ie kid). 

> As David referred to the rotation bug, the management of data encrypted with
> which key and what version becomes a bit harder.. Security always has a
> price.

A bit harder but not super hard.

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