Jerry Chen created AVRO-1371:
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Summary: Support of data encryption for Avro file
Key: AVRO-1371
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1371
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 1.8.0
Reporter: Jerry Chen
Avro file format is widely used in Hadoop. As data security is getting more and
more attention in Hadoop community, we propose to improve Avro file format to
be able to handle data encryption and decryption.
Similar to compression and decompression, encryption and decryption can be
implemented with Codec, a concept that already exists in Avro. While Codec
context handling was not considered because compression codecs rarely need
contexts but some simple global configuration parameters. To support encryption
and decryption, this work needs to extend the codec with the ability to handle
codec context such as the encryption keys.
Avro supports multiple language implementations. This is the umbrella JIRA for
this work and the implementation work for each language will be addressed in
sub tasks.
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