Hi all,

jumping on this thread as we have requests for which per-client fs mount 
encryption makes a lot of sense:

> What kind of security to you want to achieve with encryption keys stored
> on the server side?

One of the use cases is if a user requests a share with encryption at rest. 
Since encryption has an unavoidable performance impact, it is impractical to 
make 100% of users pay for the requirements that only 1% of users really have. 
Instead of all-OSD back-end encryption hitting everyone for little reason, 
encrypting only some user-buckets/fs-shares on the front-end application level 
will ensure that the data is encrypted at rest.

It may very well not serve any other purpose, but these are requests we get. If 
I could provide an encryption key to a ceph-fs kernel at mount time, this 
requirement could be solved very elegantly on a per-user (request) basis and 
only making users who want it pay with performance penalties.

Best regards,
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Frank Schilder
AIT Risø Campus
Bygning 109, rum S14

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From: Robert Sander <r.san...@heinlein-support.de>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 6:35 PM
To: ceph-users@ceph.io
Subject: [ceph-users] Re: Encryption per user Howto

On 23.05.23 08:42, huxia...@horebdata.cn wrote:
> Indeed, the question is on  server-side encryption with keys managed by ceph 
> on a per-user basis

What kind of security to you want to achieve with encryption keys stored
on the server side?

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