[openstack-dev] [nova] key management and Cinder volume encryption

Caitlin Bestler caitlin.bestler at nexenta.com
Wed Sep 4 19:53:15 UTC 2013


On September 4, 2013 12:28:19 PM "Coffman, Joel M." 
<Joel.Coffman at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> The following change provides a key manager implementation that reads a 
> static key from the project's configuration: 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/45103/
>
> This key manager implementation naturally does not provide the same 
> confidentiality that would be proffered by retrieving keys from a service 
> like Barbican or a KMIP server, but it still provides protection against 
> certain attacks like intercepting iSCSI traffic between the compute and 
> storage host and lost / stolen disks.
>
>

I know this is meant as a minimalistic stub, but even so shouldn't it be 
able to have at least a prior and current key?

How do you test a key management interface without changing keys?





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