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authorRob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>2017-06-03 10:56:47 -0400
committerRob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>2017-06-03 20:22:30 -0400
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treea0142a89dadad4c8c10f97cd8471d081e2dd8b3e /GNUmakefile
parentf67796b71895f43912a4cd30e9f894946023e811 (diff)
Add --soft-backup option to cryptech_backup.
cryptech_backup is designed to help the user transfer keys from one Cryptech HSM to another, but what is is a user who has no second HSM supposed to do for backup? The --soft-backup option enables a mode in which cryptech_backup generates its own KEKEK instead of getting one from the (nonexistent) target HSM. We make a best-effort attempt to keep this soft KEKEK secure, by wrapping it with a symmetric key derived from a passphrase, using AESKeyWrapWithPadding and PBKDF2, but there's a limit to what a software-only solution can do here. The --soft-backup code depends (heavily) on PyCrypto.
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