In a post written earlier this year – Percona Server for MySQL Encryption Options and Choices – I discussed some of the options around encryption in MySQL. Being such a complex topic, that post was meant to clarify and highlight various aspects of “encryption” at different levels. I recently had this topic come up again, but specifically around column-level encryption and various options so I wanted to touch on this in more detail.
As of the current release of Percona Server for MySQL, there is no built-in way to define a single column as encrypted. Ideally, there could be some metadata passed in a create statement and this would just automatically happen, such as this:
CREATE TABLE pii_data ( …
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