Hi All,

Been playing with encryption in 10.1.4 today and there’s a few issues…

Firstly the manual gives the following example…

“Example my.cnf to enable XtraDB encryption:

[mysqld]

file-key-management

file-key-management-filename = /mount/usb1/keys.txt

innodb-encrypt-tables

innodb-encrypt-logs

innodb-encryption-threads=4”

But doesn’t make mention of the fact you need to add..

plugin-load-add=file_key_management.so

for this to work.

Secondly…

With this config..

“plugin-load-add=file_key_management.so

file_key_management

file_key_management_filename = /home/rcampbel/key.enc

file_key_management_filekey = FILE:/home/rcampbel/keyfile.txt

file_key_management_encryption_algorithm = AES_CBC

innodb-encrypt-tables

innodb-encrypt-logs

innodb-encryption-threads = 4”

I receive the following error…

ERROR Innodb: Tablespace id 0 encrypted but encryption service not available. Can’t continue opening tablespace.”

Then if I comment out inndob-encrypt-tables we get a step further but it complains..

“unknown option –innodb-encrypt-logs” <- documentation for 10.1.4 says different

If I change this to…

innodb-encrypt-log

The server then starts up successfully. Here’s a snip of some relevant variables…

After this I do seem to be able to dynamically set innodb_encrypt_tables and create an encrypted table…

Side note file_key_management_plugin.so is missing from the 10.1.3 .tar.gz bundles

Rhys Campbell

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