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Mike Percy commented on FLUME-1424:
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Thanks for the quick feedback Ralph! Why is having the password to the keystore
in a plaintext file a problem? File access permissions could be used to
restrict access to only the Flume user, like a private SSH key is protected.
Encrypting it with some hard-coded key would not make it any more secure IMO.
If we need to encrypt the KeyStore password itself, it seems like the key used
for that encryption should be configurable, which would have to live in a
KeyStore somewhere, and we kind of end up back at the same problem.
> File Channel should support encryption
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> Key: FLUME-1424
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1424
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Arvind Prabhakar
> Assignee: Arvind Prabhakar
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> When persisting the data to disk, the File Channel should allow some form of
> encryption to ensure safety of data.
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