Thanks Allen for your questioning. >> Why is this discussion taking place on hdfs-dev when other parts of Hadoop >> use encryption code? That alone makes me uncomfortable moving this code >> outside of the Hadoop umbrella. Let me explain in this way. Hadoop common implements the crypto stuff and HDFS (encryption at rest and data transfer) is the major (maybe the only) consumer of this piece of the code by now. And the fact is the crypto stuff in Hadoop common was contributed as part of HDFS encryption at rest effort. I think this is the reason that the original discussion happens in hdfs-dev.
Regards, Haifeng -----Original Message----- From: Allen Wittenauer [mailto:a...@altiscale.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 11:59 PM To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Hadoop encryption module as Apache Chimera incubator project Why is this discussion taking place on hdfs-dev when other parts of Hadoop use encryption code? That alone makes me uncomfortable moving this code outside of the Hadoop umbrella. Also, since Yetus was invoked, it’s worthwhile pointing out that we had _many_ projects, inside and outside the ASF, ask us about using the revamped toolset, many of whom were already using an older version of test-patch. A wide audience was pretty much built-in on day one.
