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FAQ What Library Provides Aerospike Encryption?
Detail
Aerospike implements TLS (including TLS 1.2) for Encryption in Transit and AES128/256 for Encryption at Rest. Certification of encryption is usually dependant on the library used as opposed to the encryption specification (e.g. FIPS 140-2). Which library is used?
Answer
Aerospike uses EVP_CIPHER which is part of evp.h which, in turn is part of openssl and provided with the libcrypto package.
Notes
Encryption at Rest is an Enterprise Edition feature that is unlocked with a feature-key-file.
Keywords
OPENSSL AER128 AES256 ENCRYPTION REST TRANSIT
Timestamp
3/13/19