Feb 19, 2020 |
MySQL, Percona Software, Security
In the last blog post of this series, we discussed in detail how Master Key encryption works. In this post, based on what we already know about Master Key encryption, we look into how Master Key rotation works. The idea behind Master Key rotation is that we want to generate a new Master Key and […]
Dec 19, 2019 |
MySQL, Percona Software, Security
In the previous blog post of this series, MySQL Encryption: Talking About Keyrings, I described how keyrings work. In this post, I will talk about how master key encryption works and what the pros and cons are of using envelope encryption such as a master key. The idea behind envelope encryption is that you use […]
Dec 09, 2019 |
MySQL, Percona Software, Security
It has been possible to enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in Percona Server for MySQL/MySQL for a while now, but have you ever wondered how it works under the hood and what kind of implications TDE can have on your server instance? In this blog posts series, we are going to have a look at […]
Mar 08, 2018 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to turn on binlog encryption in Percona Server for MySQL. Why do I need this? As you probably know, Percona Server for MySQL’s binlog contains sensitive information. Replication uses the binlog to copy events between servers. They contain all the information from one server so that it can […]