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Securing MySQL: Data Encryption with Percona Server and Vault

Percona Tech Days are free, half-day events dedicated to the most popular open source database technologies: PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MySQL. This talk for MySQL was related to MySQL Encryption with…

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Data Encryption at Rest in Oracle MySQL 5.7

 

I’ve previously evaluated MariaDB’s 10.1 implementation of data encryption at rest (https://www.pythian.com/blog/data-encryption-rest), and recently did the same for Oracle’s implementation (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-tablespace-encryption.html) in their MySQL 5.7.

 

First, here’s a walkthrough of enabling encryption for MySQL 5.7:

1. Install keyring plugin.

1a. Add the following to the [mysqld] section of /etc/my.cnf:

View the code on Gist.

1b. Restart the server:

...
service mysqld restart

1c. Verify:

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