https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-Rest-Encryption-vs-Linux-based-Encryption/m-p/141911#M40086 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/1496/nileshpatil.html" nodeid="1496">@Nilesh</A></P><P>You can use Linux based encryption on your disks which would give you encryption of HDFS data stored on those encrypted filesystems. While the performance is good, it is not as flexible. You should read this: <A target="_blank" href="https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/TransparentEncryption.html">https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/TransparentEncryption.html</A></P><P>When you use Hadoop Transparent Data Encryption, you have the ability to selectively encrypt data. You can use different keys for different encryption zones which gives you finer grained access controls.</P><P>I also recommend you take a look at this: <A target="_blank" href="https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.4.0/bk_hdfs_admin_tools/content/hdfs-encryption-overview.html">https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.4.0/bk_hdfs_admin_tools/content/hdfs-encryption-overview.html</A></P> Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:25:42 GMT myoung 2016-09-08T23:25:42Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-Rest-Encryption-vs-Linux-based-Encryption/m-p/141910#M40085 <P>Dear Team,</P><P>If i used linux based encryption on hadoop cluster then is it encrypt hdfs data.</P> Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:11:12 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-Rest-Encryption-vs-Linux-based-Encryption/m-p/141910#M40085 Nilesh 2016-09-08T14:11:12Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-Rest-Encryption-vs-Linux-based-Encryption/m-p/141911#M40086 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/1496/nileshpatil.html" nodeid="1496">@Nilesh</A></P><P>You can use Linux based encryption on your disks which would give you encryption of HDFS data stored on those encrypted filesystems. While the performance is good, it is not as flexible. You should read this: <A target="_blank" href="https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/TransparentEncryption.html">https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/TransparentEncryption.html</A></P><P>When you use Hadoop Transparent Data Encryption, you have the ability to selectively encrypt data. You can use different keys for different encryption zones which gives you finer grained access controls.</P><P>I also recommend you take a look at this: <A target="_blank" href="https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.4.0/bk_hdfs_admin_tools/content/hdfs-encryption-overview.html">https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.4.0/bk_hdfs_admin_tools/content/hdfs-encryption-overview.html</A></P> Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:25:42 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-Rest-Encryption-vs-Linux-based-Encryption/m-p/141911#M40086 myoung 2016-09-08T23:25:42Z