Using encryption with Hadoop

The Cloudera documentation says that Hadoop does not support on disk encryption. Would it be possible to use hardware encrypted hard drives wit开发者_StackOverflow社区h Hadoop?

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eCryptfs can be used to do per-file encryption on each individual Hadoop node. It's rather tedious to setup, but it certainly can be done.

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If you have mounted a file system on the drive then Hadoop can use the drive. HDFS stores its data in the normal OS file system. Hadoop will not know whether the drive is encrypted or not and it will not care.

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Hadoop doesn't directly support encryption, though a compression codec can be used used for encryption/decryption. Here are more details about encryption and HDFS.

Regarding h/w based encryption, I think Hadoop should be able to work on it. As Spike mentioned, HDFS is like any other Java application and stores it's data in the normal OS file systems. FYI, MapR uses Direct I/O for better HDFS performance.

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See also Intel's Rhino. Not open source yet...

https://github.com/intel-hadoop/project-rhino/ https://hadoop.intel.com/pdfs/IntelEncryptionforHadoopSolutionBrief.pdf