New in CDH 5.3: Transparent Encryption in HDFS

Cloudera has declared HDFS’ transparent encryption as production-ready as part of the CDH 5.3 release. This post discusses the design and features of HDFS encryption, provides some basic examples for using it, and talks about about performance impact.

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/01/new-in-cdh-5-3-transparent-encryption-in-hdfs/