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Posted to common-dev@hadoop.apache.org by Owen O'Malley <ow...@yahoo-inc.com> on 2006/09/08 01:48:12 UTC

adding encryption to hadoop

I realized today that with the new pluggable codec framework we can  
trivially support encryption.

You'd define a codec that does encryption and the application would  
set the password in the JobConf. The framework would then  
automatically encrypt and decrypt your files automatically. Fun stuff.

-- Owen

Re: adding encryption to hadoop

Posted by Eric Baldeschwieler <er...@yahoo-inc.com>.

interesting.

How would you keep the key secure?

This really encourages the notion of chaining stream processors  
together...

On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote:

> I realized today that with the new pluggable codec framework we can  
> trivially support encryption.
>
> You'd define a codec that does encryption and the application would  
> set the password in the JobConf. The framework would then  
> automatically encrypt and decrypt your files automatically. Fun stuff.
>
> -- Owen