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Anoop Sam John commented on HBASE-10065:
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> Stronger validation of key unwrapping
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> Key: HBASE-10065
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10065
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
> Assignee: Andrew Purtell
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 0.98.0
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> Attachments: 10065.patch
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> In EncryptionUtil#unwrapKey we use a CRC32 to validate the successful
> unwrapping of a data key. I chose a CRC32 to limit overhead. There is only a
> 1 in 2^32 chance of a random collision, low enough to be extremely unlikely.
> However, I was talking with my colleague Jerry Chen today about this. A
> cryptographic hash would lower the probability to essentially zero and we are
> only wrapping data keys once per HColumnDescriptor and once per HFile, saving
> a few bytes here and there only really. Might as well use the SHA of the data
> key and in addition consider running AES in GCM mode to cover that hash as
> additional authenticated data.
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