You don't want to do that. I mean you really don't want to do that. ;-) You would be better off doing a strong encryption at the cell level. You can use co-processors to do that if you'd like.
YMMV On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Mohammad Tariq <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Stack, > > Would it be feasible to encrypt the HFile itself?? > > Regards, > Mohammad Tariq > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Will it be possible to use the compression methods to call an >> encryption method instead? >> >> 2012/8/8, Farrokh Shahriari <[email protected]>: >>> Thanks >>> How can I encrypt a cell ? Is there a special way for encryption ? >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Farrokh Shahriari >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hi >>>>> How can I enable encryption on hbase ? >>>>> if I want to use encryption in a cluster with hbase running on top of >>>>> hadoop,what can I do? Can't hadoop be configured to automatically >>>>> encrypt >>>>> each file which is going to be written on it? >>>>> >>>> >>>> HBase does not provide this facility. You'd have to encrypt cell >>>> content yourself and then put it into HBase. >>>> >>>> St.Ack >>>> >>> >
