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From: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
To: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, Ben Boeckel <me@benboeckel.net>
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Request_key from KMIP appliance
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 14:21:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210115222145.GA24894@alison-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210108003138.GB575130@erythro>


+ linux-fscrypt

Since I first wrote this question, realized we need to consider any
external key server, not only ones that are KMIP compliant.


On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 07:31:38PM -0500, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 13:37:10 -0800, Alison Schofield wrote:
> > I'm looking into using an external key server to store the encrypted blobs
> > of kernel encrypted keys. Today they are stored in the rootfs, but we'd
> > like to address the need to store the keys in an external KMIP appliance,
> > separate from the platform where deployed.
> > 
> > Any leads, thoughts, experience with the Linux Kernel Key Service
> > requesting keys from an external Key Server such as this?
> 
> See the `request-key.conf(5)` manpage. I don't have experience with
> actual usage or deployment though, so others might have more input.
> 
> --Ben

      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-15 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-07 21:37 Request_key from KMIP appliance Alison Schofield
2021-01-08  0:31 ` Ben Boeckel
2021-01-15 22:21   ` Alison Schofield [this message]

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