Signing and encryption support for messages

Registered by Russell Bryant

Add signing and encryption for messages.

Blueprint information

Status:
Started
Approver:
Mark McLoughlin
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Simo Sorce
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
None
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Slow progress
Milestone target:
None
Started by
Mark McLoughlin

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Sprints

Whiteboard

Deferred until Icehouse - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-August/013992.html

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Ongoing discussion here: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-April/007916.html

etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/HavanaOsloMessaging

Current patches:

https://review.openstack.org/37912
https://review.openstack.org/37913
https://review.openstack.org/37914

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(historical notes)

Simo and I had some offline discussion about whether we can land this stuff before the keystone key-distribution-server blueprint is implemented.

Right now, the code has a "FIXME: fetch from server" which basically means the code can't be used right now. I don't think we should merge this code into Oslo until there's some way of testing it.

I suggested the idea of supporting multiple key distribution strategies and implementing a very hacky one to begin with - e.g. a SEK cache file (with the same permissions as secure_message_key file) which would contain an SEK for each peer pair. On the "key server" we'd have all the secret keys, a file which describes the peer relationships and a script to generate the SEK caches with a long TTL. These SEK caches could be distributed with e.g. scp or shared storage.

That might not be something we'd ever recommend people use in any sort of a production environment, but it could allow us to test the code paths in e.g. devstack or SmokeStack.

Simo's preference is to push forward with the keystone kds work and only fallback to a simpler, interim distribution strategy if the keystone work gets stalled.

Given all that, I'm moving this to the havana-2 milestone since havana-1 is two weeks away. -- markmc

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As requested by ttx, I've set the status to Blocked pending progress on the kds side -- markmc

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Unclear to me what's happening with KDS at this point, see http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/020730.html -- @markmc

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I adjusted the priority to medium, to reflect the fact that the key-distribution-server bp is only a medium priority item for keystone. -- dhellmann

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Removed from icehouse from now - unless something changes dramatically, it's not going to make it -- @markmc

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/trusted-messaging,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/109806
    Adds message security plugins

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/205330
    Add simple hmac adding and validating

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