[HADOOP-8658] Add support for configuring the encryption algorithm used for Hadoop RPC

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: ipc, security
• Target Version/s: 2.0.2-alpha
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Aaron Myers
• Created: 07/Aug/12 20:31
• Updated: 13/Aug/18 19:13

Description

HDFS-3637 recently introduced the ability to encrypt actual HDFS block data on the wire, including the ability to choose which encryption algorithm is used. It would be great if Hadoop RPC similarly had support for choosing the encryption algorithm.