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The barbican-hsm-plugin interface provides a mechanism for the Barbican charm to communicate with an HSM plugin. The plugin (from the Barbican perspective) is provided as a PKCS#11 compliant library (.so) and so is local to the Barbican installation. Thus, the hsm-plugin charms are subordinate to the Barbican charm and run on the same unit. This change also provides two actions (generate-mkek and generate-hmac) which are 'one-off' operations to initialise the HSM with the global master keys. Add a note to the README that the generate-mkek and generate-hmac actions may only be done once as the HSM may reject overwriting the key. Add Apache2.0 LICENSE and license headers to files Removed redundant copyright file Change the reference for the internal port to 9311 The barbican project changed the INTERNAL port to the same as the PUBLIC port. Add in seed_file and seed_length to template. These are needed for a change in Barbican to support seeding the RNG in the HSM if required. They are set to /dev/random and 32. Fetch the barbican sources from a PPA (for bug: 1599550) Remove the trusty support for Py3 from install hook |
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README.md
Barbican Source Charm
This repository is for the reactive, layered, Barbican source charm. From the wiki 'Barbican is a REST API designed for the secure storage, provisioning and management of secrets such as passwords, encryption keys and X.509 Certificates. It is aimed at being useful for all environments, including large ephemeral Clouds.'
Plugins
The Barbican charm currently supports the following plugins:
Creating the primary MKEK and primary HMAC
Barbican (can use|uses) a Master Key Encryption Key (MKEK) scheme to wrap other keys so that in the course of issuing new encryption keys, it doesn't exhaust the storage capacity of an HSM.
See KMIP MKEK Model Plugin for more details.
Barbican itself can generate the MKEK and HMAC keys and store them in the associated HSM through the use of two actions 'generate-mkek' and 'generate-hmac'.
The names of the keys are stored in the configuration for the service as 'mkek-label' and 'hmac-label'. These default to 'primarymkek' and 'primaryhmac' respectively.
Note that these keys are not recoverable from the HSM. If the HSM has already been configured with these keys then these actions would overwrite the existing key. So only use them for the initial implementation or to change the MKEK and HMAC keys in the HSM.
Use of actions
For juju 1.x:
juju action do generate-mkek
For juju 2.x:
juju run-action generate-mkek
Note that, depending on the HSM, it may only be possible to do this ONCE as the HSM may reject setting up the keys more than once.
Developer Notes
The Barbican charm has to be able to set [crypto] and [xxx_plugin] sections
in the barbican-api.conf file. This data comes via the barbican-hsm-plugin
interface from a charm (probably a subordinate) that provides the interface.
On the barbican-hsm-interface the data is provided in the plugin_data()
method of the interface (or if it is adapted) in the plugin_data property.
The theory of operation for the crypto plugin is that a local library that supports the PKCS#11 interface that Barbican can talk to locally.
Note(AJK): it is not clear yet how a clustered Barbican can be created with a single HSM backend. It's likely to be a separate piece of hardward with a local library that talks to it.
In order for Barbican to be configured for the example softhsm2 library, the configuration file needs to include the entries:
[crypto]
enabled_crypto_plugins = p11_crypto
[p11_crypto_plugin]
library_path = '/usr/lib/libCryptoki2_64.so'
login = 'catt'
mkek_label = 'primarymkek'
mkek_length = 32
hmac_label = 'primaryhmac' slot_id = <slot_id>
Note that the /var/lib/softhsm/tokens directory HAS to exist as otherwise the softhsm2-util command won't work.