Thank you Andrew! What we hear must be rumor :-) We are now confident to use this feature.
HSM is a good option, I am new to it. But will look at it. Thanks, Ming -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Andrew Purtell [mailto:[email protected]] 发送时间: 2016年6月3日 8:59 收件人: [email protected] 抄送: Zhang, Yi (Eason) <[email protected]> 主题: Re: hbase 'transparent encryption' feature is production ready or not? > We heard from various sources that it is not production ready before. Said by whom, specifically? > During our tests, we do find out it works not very stable, but probably due to our lack of experience of this feature. If you have something repeatable, please consider filing a JIRA to report the problem. > And, we now save the encryption key in the disk, so we were wondering, this is something not secure. Data keys are encrypted with a master key which must be protected. The out of the box key provider stores the master key in a local keystore. That's not sufficient protection. In a production environment you will want to use a HSM. Most (all?) HSMs support the keystore API. If that is not sufficient, our KeyProvider API is extensible for the solution you choose to employ in production. Have you looked at HDFS transparent encryption? https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.2/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/TransparentEncryption.html Because it works at the HDFS layer it's a more general solution. Be careful what version of Hadoop you use if opting for HDFS TDE, though. Pick the most recent release. Slightly older versions (like 2.6.0) had fatal bugs if used in conjunction with HBase. On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Liu, Ming (Ming) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all, > > We are trying to deploy the 'transparent encryption' feature of HBase > , described in HBase reference guide: > https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.encryption.server , in our > product. > We heard from various sources that it is not production ready before. > > During our tests, we do find out it works not very stable, but > probably due to our lack of experience of this feature. It works > sometime, sometimes not work, and retry the same configuration, it > work again. We were using HBase 1.0. > > Could anyone give us some information that this feature is already > stable and can be used in a production environment? > > And, we now save the encryption key in the disk, so we were wondering, > this is something not secure. Since the key is at same place with > data, anyone can decode the data because if he/she can access the > data, he/she can access the key as well. Is there any best practice > about how to manage the key? > > Thanks, > Ming > > -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
