Adding Encryption to a Fast Database, Without Compromise

Written by wmleler | Published 2020/04/02
Tech Story Tags: encryption | security | key-value-database | golang | performance | aes | database | programming

TLDR This article examines how the team at Dgraph Labs added data encryption to Badger, an extremely fast and reliable open-source database. Badger has over 7.3K stars on Github and is used in over 850 projects, including IPFS and Uber's Jaeger. It is written in the Go language, which was developed by Google that included Ken Thompson (UNIX, regular expressions, Plan 9, UTF-8) The challenge for the team was to figure out how to implement encryption without compromise.via the TL;DR App
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Written by wmleler | https://leler.com/wm/bio.html
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/04/02
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