Bug 1017273 - RFE: Support storage of secrets in a secure pkcs11 file or similar
Summary: RFE: Support storage of secrets in a secure pkcs11 file or similar
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 636152
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libvirt
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Libvirt Maintainers
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Reported: 2013-10-09 14:31 UTC by Daniel Berrangé
Modified: 2016-04-10 15:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-04-10 15:01:37 UTC
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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 ***


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