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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Enquiry about TDE with PgSQL
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:59:58 -0400
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 09:01:52AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-10-17 at 00:49 -0400, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > TDE, on the other hand, is a very complex and difficult thing to add into Postgres.
> > 
> > TDE was added to SQL Server, with (to us, at least) minimally-noticed overhead.
> > Oracle has it, too, but I don't know the details.
> > 
> > The bottom line is that requirements for TDE are escalating, whether you like it or
> > not, as Yet Another Layer Of Defense against hackers exfiltrating data, and then
> > threatening to leak it to the public.
> 
> Bruce Momjian has interesting things to say about that in
> https://compiledconversations.com/6/ (unfortunately I don't remember where
> exactly in this 84 minute piece).

Here is my most recent blog about TDE:

	https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2025.html#February_22_2025

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