View the Encryption Algorithm and Store Key

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As of October 30, 2020, CockroachDB v19.1 is no longer supported. For more details, refer to the Release Support Policy.

The debug encryption-active-key command displays the encryption algorithm and store key for an encrypted store.

Subcommands

While the cockroach debug command has a few subcommands, users are expected to use only the zip, encryption-active-key, merge-logs, and ballast subcommands.

The other debug subcommands are useful only to CockroachDB's developers and contributors.

$ cockroach debug encryption-active-key [path specified by the store flag]

Start a node with encryption-at-rest enabled:

$ cockroach start --store=cockroach-data --enterprise-encryption=path=cockroach-data,key=aes-128.key,old-key=plain --insecure --certs-dir=certs

View the encryption algorithm and store key:

$ cockroach debug encryption-active-key cockroach-data

AES128_CTR:be235c29239aa84a48e5e1874d76aebf7fb3c1bdc438cec2eb98de82f06a57a0