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# Key Management Services
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This document describes how to use a key management service or KMS to store the
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private keys and sign certificates.
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Support for multiple KMS are planned, but currently the only supported one is
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Google's Cloud KMS.
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## Google's Cloud KMS.
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[Cloud KMS](https://cloud.google.com/kms) is the Google's cloud-hosted KMS that
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allows you to store the cryptographic keys, and sign certificates using their
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infrastructure. Cloud KMS supports two different protection levels, SOFTWARE and
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HSM.
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To configure Cloud KMS in your CA you need add the `"kms"` property to you
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`ca.json`, and replace the property`"key"` with the Cloud KMS key name of your
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intermediate key:
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```json
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{
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...
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"key": "projects/<project-id>/locations/global/keyRings/<ring-id>/cryptoKeys/<key-id>/cryptoKeyVersions/<version-number>",
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...
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"kms": {
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"type": "cloudkms",
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"credentialsFile": "path/to/credentials.json"
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}
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}
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```
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In a similar way, for SSH certificate, the SSH keys must be Cloud KMS names:
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```json
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{
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...
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"ssh": {
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"hostKey": "projects/<project-id>/locations/global/keyRings/<ring-id>/cryptoKeys/<key-id>/cryptoKeyVersions/<version-number>",
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"userKey": "projects/<project-id>/locations/global/keyRings/<ring-id>/cryptoKeys/<key-id>/cryptoKeyVersions/<version-number>"
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},
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}
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```
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Currently [step](https://github.com/smallstep/cli) does not provide an automatic
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way to initialize the public key infrastructure (PKI) using Cloud KMS, but an
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experimental tool named `step-cloudkms-init` is available for this use case. At
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some point this tool will be integrated into `step` and it will be deleted.
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To use `step-cloudkms-init` just enable Cloud KMS in your project and run:
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```sh
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$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/credentials.json
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$ step-cloudkms-init --project your-project-id --ssh
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Creating PKI ...
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✔ Root Key: projects/your-project-id/locations/global/keyRings/pki/cryptoKeys/root/cryptoKeyVersions/1
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✔ Root Certificate: root_ca.crt
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✔ Intermediate Key: projects/your-project-id/locations/global/keyRings/pki/cryptoKeys/intermediate/cryptoKeyVersions/1
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✔ Intermediate Certificate: intermediate_ca.crt
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Creating SSH Keys ...
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✔ SSH User Public Key: ssh_user_ca_key.pub
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✔ SSH User Private Key: projects/your-project-id/locations/global/keyRings/pki/cryptoKeys/ssh-user-key/cryptoKeyVersions/1
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✔ SSH Host Public Key: ssh_host_ca_key.pub
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✔ SSH Host Private Key: projects/your-project-id/locations/global/keyRings/pki/cryptoKeys/ssh-host-key/cryptoKeyVersions/1
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```
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See `step-cloudkms-init --help` for more options.
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