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What is the wire encryption used by HBase when hbase.rpc.protection is set to privacy?
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Created 09-18-2018 04:05 AM
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The HBase Book says this about enabling wire-encryption in HBase:
Once HBase is configured for secure RPC it is possible to optionally configure encrypted communication.
To do so, add the following to the hbase-site.xml
file on every client:
<property> <name>hbase.rpc.protection</name> <value>privacy</value> </property>
What is/are the encryption algorithm(s) used when HBase wire-encryption is enabled?
Created 10-01-2018 11:26 AM
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HBase, like Hadoop, uses the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) framework implementation in the Java SE libraries to provide authentication and message integrity and privacy services.
When a cluster is secured with Kerberos and
hbase.rpc.protection=privacy
, SASL uses the GSS-API (Java-GSS) framework to initiate
Kerberos authentication between client and server, which results in the sharing of a (symmetric) cryptographic key between client and (Region) server which can be used for message (HBase payload) encryption.
With the JCE libraries installed, the cipher/encryption type used should default to
aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96
.
