In a previous post we covered the retrieval of data from a store. It was described that the data at rest and in transit were not encrypted. The reason was that the store was deployed in facilities behind the firewall. Access from the outside was not allowed.
As time changed, data was only encrypted in transit using secure sockets or HTTPS. Given that facilities had to allow remote access, it made sense to encrypt the data at rest. When a client application would request data, the storage server would decrypt the file and send it to the requesting client via a secure protocol. Continue reading “Partial Retrieve from Encrypted Store”