KMS Providers¶

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Overview
Supported Key Management Services

Overview¶

Learn about the **** providers supports.

A **** is a provided as a service.

Tasks

In , your performs the following tasks:

Creates and stores your
Create and Encrypt your s
Decrypts s

To learn more about s and s, see Keys and Key Vaults.

Create and Store your¶

To create a , you must configure your provider to generate your as follows:

To view a tutorial demonstrating how to create and store your: in your preferred ,

see Tutorials.

Create and Encrypt a¶

When you create a , you must perform the following actions:

Instantiate a ClientEncryption instance in your

enabled application:
- Provide a kmsProviders object that specifies the credentials your enabled application uses to authenticate with your .
Create a with the CreateDataKey method of the ClientEncryption object in your enabled application.
- Provide a dataKeyOpts object that specifies with which key your should encrypt your new .

To view a tutorial demonstrating how to create and encrypt a , see the following resources:

To view the structure of kmsProviders and dataKeyOpts objects for all supported providers, see Supported Key Management Services.

Decrypt a¶

To decrypt a , you must provide a kmsProviders object that specifies the credentials your enabled application uses to authenticate with your and retrieve your .

Supported Key Management Services¶

The following sections of this page present the following information for all providers:

Architecture of enabled client
Structure of kmsProviders objects
Structure of dataKeyOpts objects

supports the following

providers:

Amazon Web Services KMS
Azure Key Vault
Google Cloud Platform KMS
KMIP
Local Key Provider

Amazon Web Services KMS¶

This section provides information related to using AWS Key Management Service in your enabled application.

To view a tutorial demonstrating how to use AWS KMS in your: enabled application, see

Use Automatic with AWS.

Architecture¶

The following diagram describes the architecture of a: enabled application using KMS.

Note

Client Can’t Access

When using the preceding , your: enabled application does not have access to

your .

kmsProviders Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a kmsProviders object for AWS KMS:

Field	Required for IAM User	Required for IAM Role	Description
Access Key ID	Yes	Yes	Identifies the account user.
Secret Access Key	Yes	Yes	Contains the authentication credentials of the account user.
Session Token	No	Yes	Contains a token obtained from AWS Security Token Service (STS).

dataKeyOpts Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a dataKeyOpts object for AWS KMS:

Field	Required	Description
key	Yes	Amazon Resource Number (ARN) of the master key.
region	No	AWS region of your master key, e.g. “us-west-2”; required only if not specified in your ARN.
endpoint	No	Custom hostname for the AWS endpoint if configured for your account.

Azure Key Vault¶

This section provides information related to using Azure Key Vault in your enabled application.

To view a tutorial demonstrating how to use Azure Key Vault in your: enabled application, see

Use Automatic with Azure.

Architecture¶

The following diagram describes the architecture of a: enabled application using Azure Key Vault.

Note

Client Can’t Access

When using the preceding , your: enabled application does not have access to

your .

kmsProviders Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a kmsProviders object for Azure Key Vault:

Field	Required	Description
azure.tenantId	Yes	Identifies the organization of the account.
azure.clientId	Yes	Identifies the clientId to authenticate your registered application.
azure.clientSecret	Yes	Used to authenticate your registered application.
azure.identityPlatformEndpoint	No	Specifies a hostname and port number for the authentication server. Defaults to login.microsoftonline.com and is only needed for non-commercial Azure instances such as a government or China account.

dataKeyOpts Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a dataKeyOpts object for Azure Key Vault:

Field	Required	Description
keyName	Yes	Name of the master key
keyVersion	No	Version of the master key
keyVaultEndpoint	Yes	URL of the key vault. E.g. myVaultName.vault.azure.net

Google Cloud Platform KMS¶

This section provides information related to using Google Cloud Key Management in your enabled application.

To view a tutorial demonstrating how to use GCP KMS in your: enabled application, see

Use Automatic with GCP.

Architecture¶

The following diagram describes the architecture of a: enabled application using GCP KMS.

Note

Client Can’t Access

When using the preceding , your: enabled application does not have access to

your .

kmsProviders Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a kmsProviders object for GCP KMS:

Field	Required	Description
email	Yes	Identifies your service account email address.
privateKey	Yes	Identifies your service account private key in either base64 string or Binary subtype 0 format without the prefix and suffix markers. Suppose your service account private key value is as follows: -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nyour-private-key\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n The value you would specify for this field is: your-private-key If you have a `user-key.json` credential file, you can extract the string by executing the following command in a bash or similar shell: copy cat user-key.json \| jq -r .private_key \| openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -inform PEM -outform DER \| base64 -w 0
endpoint	No	Specifies a hostname and port number for the authentication server. Defaults to oauth2.googleapis.com.

dataKeyOpts Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a dataKeyOpts object for GCP KMS:

Field	Required	Description
projectId	Yes	Identifier for your project in which you created the key.
location	Yes	Region specified for your key.
keyRing	Yes	Identifier for the group of keys your key belongs to.
keyName	Yes	Identifier for the symmetric master key.
keyVersion	No	Specifies the version of the named key. If not specified, the default version of the key is used.
endpoint	No	Specifies the host and optional port of the Cloud KMS. The default is `cloudkms.googleapis.com`.

KMIP¶

This section provides information related to using a KMIP compliant provider in your enabled application.

Architecture¶

The following diagram describes the architecture of a: enabled application using a KMIP compliant provider.

Important

Client Accesses

When your enabled application uses a KMIP compliant provider, your application directly accesses your .

kmsProviders Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a kmsProviders object for a KMIP compliant :

Note

Authenticate through TLS/SSL

Your enabled application authenticates through TLS/SSL when using KMIP.

Field	Required	Description
endpoint	Yes	Specifies a hostname and port number for the authentication server.

dataKeyOpts Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a dataKeyOpts object for a KMIP compliant :

Field Required Description

keyId

No

The keyId field of a 96 byte Secret Data managed object stored in your KMIP provider.

If you do not specify the keyId field in the masterKey document you send to your KMIP provider, the driver creates a new 96 Byte Secret Data managed object in your KMIP provider to act as your master key.

endpoint Yes The URI of your KMIP provider.

Local Key Provider¶

This section provides information related to using a Local Key Provider (your filesystem) in your enabled application.

Warning

Do Not Use a Local Key File in Production

A local key file in your filesystem is insecure and is not recommended for production. Instead, you should store your s in a remote :wikipedia:` <Key_management#Key_management_system>` (KMS).

To learn how to use a remote KMS in your implementation, see the <qe-tutorial-automatic-encryption> guide.

To view a tutorial demonstrating how to use a Local Key Provider for testing , see Quick Start.

Architecture¶

When you use a Local Key Provider in your enabled application, your application retrieves your from the filesystem of the computer on which your application is running.

The following diagram describes the architecture of a -enabled application using a Local Key Provider.

Local Key Provider architecture diagram.

kmsProviders Object¶

The following table presents the structure of a kmsProviders object for a Local Key Provider:

Field	Required	Description
key	Yes	The master key used to encrypt/decrypt data keys. The master key is passed as a base64 encoded string.

dataKeyOpts Object¶

When you use a Local Key Provider, you specify your through your kmsProviders object.

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