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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The following change provides a key manager implementation that reads a static key from the project’s configuration: <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/45103/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/45103/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bryan D. Payne [mailto:bdpayne@acm.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 04, 2013 9:47 AM<br><b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] key management and Cinder volume encryption<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>External dependencies are fine, obviously. The difference is whether we<br>actually have code to interface with those external dependencies. We<br>have code to talk to databases and message queues. There's no code<br>right now to interface with anything for key management.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ok, this makes sense. I generally assume that people deploying OpenStack have some integration work to do anyway. So, for me, writing a few python methods isn't much different than writing a configuration file. Having said this, I do understand where you are coming from here.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I do believe that a static key configuration is a useful starting place for a lot of users. I spoke with Joel this morning and I think he is going to try to put together an example key management driver that does this today. Such a solution would allow deployers to use their existing orchestration tools to write a key to a configuration file.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-bryan<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>