Re: Data encryption/decryption at rest

Frank Muller <[email protected]> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 13:59:50 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general
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I’ve heard about Luks / Ceph.

Any practical experience with them or any other alternative? I’m looking
for a simple solution.

Will data decrypting affect performance?

/Frank


> Can you just use full disk encryption at the operating system level?
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> On Jan 22, 2022, at 5:04 AM, Frank Muller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> Hi guys,
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> We have some ETS tables persisted to disk periodically.
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> These data are almost static (rarely change) and contains clients
> information such as: name, gender, date/place of birth, security token, etc.
>
> Due to new policy in place, these data has to be encrypted at rest.
> But I still need to access it in a decrypted way inside my Erlang app.
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> What approach should I take?
> Is there any Erlang library to help with this task?
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> Disclaimer: I’m by far not a security expert
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> Thanks
> /Frank
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