Vault Generate New Unseal Keys

10 min Vault supports generating new unseal keys as well as rotating the underlying encryption keys. This guide covers rekeying and rotating Vault's encryption keys. This guide covers rekeying and rotating Vault's encryption keys. Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing. Vault handles leasing, key revocation, key rolling, auditing, and provides secrets as a service through a unified API.

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For added assurance, when you use Azure Key Vault, you can import or generate keys in hardware security modules (HSMs) that never leave the HSM boundary. This scenario is often referred to as bring your own key, or BYOK. Azure Key Vault uses nCipher nShield family of HSMs (FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validated) to protect your keys.

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For more information about Azure Key Vault, see What is Azure Key Vault?
For a getting started tutorial, which includes creating a key vault for HSM-protected keys, see What is Azure Key Vault?.

Supported HSMs

Transferring HSM-protected keys to Key Vault is supported via two different methods depending on the HSMs you use. Use the table below to determine which method should be used for your HSMs to generate, and then transfer your own HSM-protected keys to use with Azure Key Vault.

Vendor NameVendor TypeSupported HSM modelsSupported HSM-key transfer method
nCipherManufacturer
  • nShield family of HSMs
Use legacy BYOK method
ThalesManufacturer
  • SafeNet Luna HSM 7 family with firmware version 7.3 or newer
Use new BYOK method (preview)
FortanixHSM as a Service
  • Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS)
Use new BYOK method (preview)

Next steps

Follow Key Vault Best Practices to ensure security, durability and monitoring for your keys.

The goal is this is to build an example setup using Vagrant that:

  • Installs multiple Windows servers
  • Configures Active Directory
  • Installs IIS and .NET Core
  • Hosts an app in an IIS application pool
  • Assigns an identity to the application pool
  • Installs a Vault cluster
  • Installs the Vault Kerberos plugin
  • Configures the app to authenticate to Vault with Kerberos

plex automatically download subtitles mac After the setup in completed, simply hit FancyApp on http://localhost:30001 to see the working app.

Active Directory setup based on jborean93/ansible-windows.

Setup

To perform the setup:

  1. Bring up the hosts

If the provision step fails, try running again with vagrant provision vault.

  1. Ensure Vault is alive

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  1. Initialize and unseal vault. Login with the root token.

For simplicity, this is set with just one unseal key. Use this to unseal Vault and the root token to login. Don't do this in production.

  1. Configure Vault using Terraform

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Requirements

  • VirtualBox
  • Vagrant
  • Ansible
  • Terraform

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