Hi all,
We are trying to add Carbon secure-vault support to C5.
We have done some changes to the way how we configure ciphertool and
securevault in C5 compared to C4. Please find the new design details below:
There are two configuration files that we maintain for Ciphertool and
Securevault:
[1]. *secrets.properties* - This file will contains the secret-allias
and secrets (encrypted/or plain-text). Act as the file-based secret
repository. We define all the passwords/secrets which need to be secured in
this file.
eg: SecureVault.Keystore.Password=[wso2carbon]
Carbon.Security.KeyStore.Password=[somepassword]
[2]. *secure-vault.yaml* - This file will have the main configurations
(eg: default secret repository implementation, default Callbackhandler
implementation etc)
eg: carbon.secretProvider:
org.wso2.securevault.secret.handler.SecretManagerSecretCallbackHandler
keystore.identity.type: JKS
keystore.identity.store.password: identity.store.password
The CipherTool will be used for creating encrypted values for given plain
text secrets in the *secrets**.properties* [1].
If a user need to make a value secure,
1. they have to add a unique name (alias) to their carbon configuration
element (eg: a value of an element in carbon.yml)
2. add the same unique-name along with the plain-text password to the
*secrets.properties* file.
*Example:*
Assume that we need to secure a value "password" under element
"Security/Keystore" in Carbon.yml configuration. First we add a unique a
alias as the value to the Password as below [3]. Second we add that unique
alias with its plain text password to *secrets*.properties file[4].
CipherTool will encrypt the plain-text password and replace the plain-text
password with the encrypted value. (In c4 we have added plain-text
passwords within square brackets. If not they are identified as encrypted
values).
When loading the carbon.yml (or any other custom configuration file), we
read the secured values using secure-vault service. This secure vault
service will either return the password from the *secrets*.properties file
if the secret is not encrypted, OR return the encrypted value.
[3]
################################################################################
id: carbon-kernel #Value to uniquely identify a server
name: WSO2 Carbon Kernel #Server Name
version: 5.1.0-SNAPSHOT #Server Version
tenant: default #Tenant Name
# Keystore used by this server
Security:
Keystore
Password: Carbon.Security.Keystore.Password
###############################################################################
[4] Carbon.Security.Keystore.Password=[wso2carbon]
*New design decisions taken compared to C4 SecureVault implementation:*
1. We have removed the usage of cipher-tool.properties file. (This file
was used to keep the alias, the location to the configuration file, and the
xpath to the secret element in the configuration file).
2. We can support any format of configuration file with this model as we
only care about the secret-key that we define in the *secrets*.properties
file and do not depend on the xpath to find the location of the secret
element.
Thanks,
Nipuni
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Nipuni Perera
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