The current implementation of encryption in Badger doesn’t allow enabling encryption on an unencrypted Alpha. This topic proposes ways of enabling encryption on an unencrypted alpha. Background The encryption in Dgraph is supported via Badger. Badger stores the information about encryption in the k…

Yes. That will be caught by badger as “Encryption Key Mismatch” and panic. @ibrahim can we return an error instead so dgraph can propagate a useful log and exit gracefully? Also, I realized even the mechanism to “change” an encryption key is not clean. It needs to be exported and then live-loaded o…

Enabling Encyption on an Unencrypted Alpha

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mrjn (Manish R Jain) May 12, 2020, 3:13pm 2

Agreed with the analysis.

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Enabling Encyption on an Unencrypted Alpha

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