Thanks a lot John for your response. I also thank everyone who has been responding to my queries if I have missed someone . There was some problem while configuring my email .I do not receive the email response directly from openstack Dev group.I would check the archive folder for that. I will have a look into it
Once again , it's nice working and collaborating with the openstack Dev -group. Thanks and Regards, Asha Seshagiri jh Thanks and Regards, Asha Seshagiri On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:10 AM, John Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Asha, > > The /v1/secrets resource is used to upload, encrypt and store your > secrets, and to decrypt and retrieve those secrets. Key encryption keys > (KEKs) internal to Barbican are used to encrypt the secret. > > The /v1/orders resource is used when you want Barbican to generate > secrets for you. When they are done they give you references to where the > secrets are stored so you can retrieve them via the secrets resource above. > > Hope that helps! > > Thanks, > John > > From: Asha Seshagiri <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 1:23 AM > To: openstack-dev <[email protected]> > Cc: John Wood <[email protected]>, "Reller, Nathan S." < > [email protected]>, Douglas Mendizabal < > [email protected]>, Paul Kehrer <[email protected]>, > Adam Harwell <[email protected]>, Alexis Lee <[email protected]> > Subject: Barbican : What is the difference between secret and order > resource > > Hi All , > > What is the difference between secret and the order resource ? > Where is the key stored that is used for encrypting the payload in the > secret resource and how do we access it. > > According to my understanding , > > Storing/Posting the secret means we are encrypting the actual > information(payload) using the key generated internally by the barbican > based on the type mentioned in the secret type. > Geting the secret means we are decryprting the information and geting the > actual information. > > Posting the order refers to the generation of the actual keys by the > barbican and encyrpting those keys based on the algorithm and the internal > key generated by barbican. > This encrypted key is referred through the secret reference and the whole > meta data is referred through a order reference. > > Please correct me if I am wrong. > Any help would be highly appreciated. > > > -- > *Thanks and Regards,* > *Asha Seshagiri* > -- *Thanks and Regards,* *Asha Seshagiri*
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