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Owen O'Malley commented on HIVE-4227:
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Andrew,
Yes if the code is available and provides the right API.
> Add column level encryption to ORC files
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> Key: HIVE-4227
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4227
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Labels: gsoc, gsoc2013
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> It would be useful to support column level encryption in ORC files. Since
> each column and its associated index is stored separately, encrypting a
> column separately isn't difficult. In terms of key distribution, it would
> make sense to use an external server like the one in HADOOP-9331.
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