Xinli, thanks for this initiative, and for pushing the things forward!

Cheers, Gidon

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:46 AM Xinli shang <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thank Gidon for sharing it out!
>
> Just want to let our community know that there is a discussion going on in
> HIVE-21848 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21848> about table
> property definition between ORC and Parquet encryption. If you are
> interested, welcome to chime in.
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 5:29 AM Gidon Gershinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > To avoid any confusion - the stuff, described in the previous mail, is a
> > possible future add-on.
> >
> > The low level API, already defined and implemented, has the maximal
> > capabilities, as far as Parquet encryption is concerned.
> > High level interface will expose a (useful) subset of these capabilities,
> > as explained in the doc below.
> > Today, we have at least three companies building end-to-end data
> protection
> > systems using the low level Parquet encryption API.
> > The API is simple; these folks focus on how to manage the keys/auth above
> > it, they are skilled enough to handle that.
> >
> > In the high level interface, we're using this experience to help less
> > skilled users with the key management/auth. There is
> > no auto-magic solution for that, but we will create a set of helper tools
> > and a simple interface to it.
> > The interface concepts will be somewhat similar to the low-level API:
> pass
> > a list of columns to be encrypted, but now,
> > instead of explicit keys and their metadata, pass master key IDs for each
> > column. See the doc for examples
> > of such table/column properties
> > <
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1boH6HPkG0ZhgxcaRkGk3QpZ8X_J91uXZwVGwYN45St4/edit#heading=h.o9oq8a9wa6em
> > >.
> > The translation of master key IDs into encryption keys/metadata will be
> > performed by these helper tools, KMS, etc.
> >
> > In other words, we should build this bottom up, by completing/merging the
> > low level APIs first, and then use the community experience with them
> > to optimally design and build the high level add-on interface/ helper
> > tools.
> >
> > Cheers, Gidon.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Gidon Gershinsky <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 4:51 PM
> > Subject: High level interface to Parquet encryption
> > To: <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As discussed at the last sync, we've briefly explored the current
> proposals
> > for the high level interface to encryption. While the initial goal was to
> > merge them into a single doc, it turned out the 1396 has evolved in the
> > meantime, becoming a full interface system. So we have two parallel
> > proposals, both presented for a community discussion:
> >
> > [1] Crypto Interface for Schema Activation of Parquet Encryption
> > <
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/17GTQAezl1ZC1pMNHjYU_bPVxMU6DIPjtXOiLclXUlyA/edit#heading=h.r9wntu3s8swd
> > >
> > Corresponds to PARQUET-1396
> > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1396>
> >
> > [2] Properties-based Interface to Parquet Encryption
> > <
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1boH6HPkG0ZhgxcaRkGk3QpZ8X_J91uXZwVGwYN45St4/edit?usp=sharing
> > >
> > I've created PARQUET-1568
> > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1568> for this one. Both
> > title and description of the Jira are subject to change. The doc [2] is
> not
> > a design draft, but rather a writeup of the current proposal and
> prototype
> > code, put together mainly to facilitate the community feedback and
> > discussion of goals, approach, etc.
> >
> > Cheers, Gidon
> >
>
>
> --
> Xinli Shang
>

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