[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-6018) Add option to encrypt commitlog

["Jason Brown (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jason Brown commented on CASSANDRA-6018:
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Spoke with [~benedict] and this effort will piggy-back on CASSANDRA-6809.

> Add option to encrypt commitlog 
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6018
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6018
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Jason Brown
>            Assignee: Jason Brown
>              Labels: commit_log, encryption, security
>             Fix For: 2.1.1
>
>
> We are going to start using cassandra for a billing system, and while I can encrypt sstables at rest (via Datastax Enterprise), commit logs are more or less plain text. Thus, an attacker would be able to easily read, for example, credit card numbers in the clear text commit log (if the calling app does not encrypt the data itself before sending it to cassandra).
> I want to allow the option of encrypting the commit logs, most likely controlled by a property in the yaml.



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