Re: Fwd: Re: osd dm-crypt key management, part... deux?

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I'll go ahead and create one then ;-)

On 28/01/2016 19:00, Loic Dachary wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
> 
> Is there an issue related to your changes in http://tracker.ceph.com/ or would you like me to create one ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> On 28/01/2016 16:44, Joshua Schmid wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sage,
>>
>> On 01/27/2016 03:26 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
>>> We've had several partial starts to address this problem but haven't 
>>> gotten anything over the line.  A quick summary:
>>>
>>> 1- Currently we store dm-crypt keys in /etc/ceph/dmcrypt-keys/$osd_uuid, 
>>> on the boot disk.  This lets you throw away OSD disk but not boot disks 
>>> and doesn't help you if someone walks away with a whole server.
>>>
>>> 2- SUSE had a pull request that made ceph-disk push/pull keys over (s)ftp.  
>>> I can't find it now.. did it get closed?
>>
>> It's here.
>>
>> https://github.com/SUSE/ceph/commit/0f5644ef3d1b1a9a14be97717b9d8dfe0338b74d
>>
>>>
>>> I suggest we do something simple:
>>>
>>> 1- Update SUSE's ceph-disk changes to make it easy to plug in 
>>> different key management strategies.
>>
>> And there.
>>
>> https://github.com/SUSE/ceph/commit/127a47ca7cf28f387d832da265f6955bb04107c3
>>
>> SUSE currently sticks with this solution since its pluggable and works
>> fairly well. It may not be the cleanest solution to rely on an external
>> tool(ftp) but until now there is simply no other option.
>>
>>>
>>> 2- Implement a simple mon-based strategy upstream.  We've discussed this a 
>>> fair bit in the past, and were getting stuck on the problem of where to 
>>> store the key-fetching-key.  I.e., we want a key on the disk that you use 
>>> to ask the monitor for the LUKS key, which you then provide to LUKS to 
>>> unlock the actual encryption key.  This means that we need a unencrypted 
>>> spot on the device to store it in.  Milan has indicated that putting it in 
>>> a LUKS key slot would be a bad idea and difficult to maintain.  Instead, I 
>>> propose we create a new GPT partition type called OSD_LOCKBOX (or 
>>> similar), with a tiny filesystem and a few files indicating what to do.  
>>> This will make it easy to store the info we need for the mon scheme, and 
>>> to support new key management approaches later (we can put whatever we 
>>> want there as long as it's not too big).
>>
>> Sounds good! But i still see the possible scenario where you dump a
>> whole rack with a MON + OSD. As a potential attacker, having these two
>> components would grant you access to all the keys needed to decrypt the
>> OSDdata. If I got understood it correctly that every MON should hold all
>> available keys.
>>
>> Some additions:
>>
>> The MON should only hand out keys when authenticated or in a clean
>> cluster context. So what i mean is basically some way to proof if the
>> MON is not in a made up environment.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I put some notes here:
>>>
>>> 	http://pad.ceph.com/p/osd-key-management
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>> sage
>>>
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> 

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