Ron Wheeler created CLOUDSTACK-4151:
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Summary: 4.5.5. About Password and Key Encryption unclear
Key: CLOUDSTACK-4151
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4151
Project: CloudStack
Issue Type: Improvement
Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
Components: Doc
Affects Versions: 4.1.1
Environment: all
Reporter: Ron Wheeler
4.5.5. About Password and Key Encryption
The purpose of this section is a bit obcure. What is the reader supposed to do
with this information?
There seems to be a lot of magical activities here wherein keys and secrets get
stored in databases without any mention of how they get there.
There seems to be a list of items that are incrypted but no explaination about
what is the reader\'s role in this or who creates them or why you are telling
the reader this at this point in the process.
It might be clearer if " The data values are encrypted and decrypted using a
database secret key, which is stored in one of CloudStack’s internal properties
files along with the database password. The other encrypted values listed
above, such as SSH keys, are in the CloudStack internal database." included
some mention about how this happens and when and whether the reader has to do
something to make any of this happen correctly.
If it is really only informational and has nothing to do with the installation
process, it could be moved out of the flow and referenced as something that
terminally curious might wish to know.
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