I think you are asking about *encryption* at rest. To my knowledge, open source
Cassandra does not support this natively. There are options, like encrypting
the data in the application before it gets to Cassandra. Some companies offer
other solutions. IMO, if you need the increased security, it
I wrote a blog post a while ago on the pros and cons of encrypting in your
application for use with Cassandra that you might find useful background on
this subject:
https://www.instaclustr.com/securing-apache-cassandra-with-application-level-encryption/
Cheers
Ben
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 13:47 Dur
Just because Cassandra doesn't do it doesn't mean you aren't able to
encrypt your data at rest, and you definitely don't need DSE to do it. I
recommend checking out the LUKS project.
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/blob/master/README.md
This, IMO, is a better option than having the data