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Encryption and compression questions

jeklof
Engager

Hi there, I have two questions:

Q1: Is it possible to turn on any encryption to the indexes of a Splunk installation other than using third party file system encryption?

Q2 : What compression do the Splunk indexes use?

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netwrkr
Communicator

Q1. What are you trying to achieve? Encryption at rest? Cryptographically signed splunk logs? Encryption at power off?

Splunk can do cryptographically signed logs - http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2.1/Admin/Signauditevents

Crypto at power off can be handled using a crypto file system such as Luks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup

Q2. I believe Splunk uses Zlib for compression.

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netwrkr
Communicator

Q1. What are you trying to achieve? Encryption at rest? Cryptographically signed splunk logs? Encryption at power off?

Splunk can do cryptographically signed logs - http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/4.2.1/Admin/Signauditevents

Crypto at power off can be handled using a crypto file system such as Luks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup

Q2. I believe Splunk uses Zlib for compression.

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