PG-1460 Always generate a new WAL key on server start #203
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Since you can take a copy of a PostgreSQL data directory and start both the old and the new version you could get two versions where the same encrypted counter is used for CTR which would mean we could comapre them and potentially decrypt the data. For this reason we need to generate a new WAL key every time we start the server.
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Since you can take a copy of a PostgreSQL data directory and start both the old and the new version you could get two versions where the same encrypted counter is used for CTR which would mean we could comapre them and potentially decrypt the data. For this reason we need to generate a new WAL key every time we start the server.