Bug 1017273

Summary: RFE: Support storage of secrets in a secure pkcs11 file or similar
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Daniel BerrangĂ© <berrange>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2013-10-09 14:31:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
Currently libvirt stores persistent secrets in unencrypted files in /etc/libvirt/secrets.  This is not a big security problem since the virtualization host fundamentally must be a trusted component. The secrets are about protecting against rogue storage admins, and/or authenticating with network storage.

It would still, however, be desirable to have the secrets stored encrypted to at least make a dedicated forensics attacker have todo some non-trivial work to recover them, even when the HD itself is not encrypted.

We could probably leverage something like pkcs11 as a secure storage mechansim to do this. There might be good enough support in gnutls APIs to do this. TBD.
Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2016-04-10 15:01:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 636152 ***