Georgy,

For Solum, let's refrain from storing any secrets, whether they be passwords or 
trusts, or tokens. I definitely don't want to be in the business of managing 
how to secure them in an SQL database. I don't even want "admin password" 
values to appear in the configuration files. I'd prefer to take a hard 
dependency on barbican[1], and store them in there, where they can be centrally 
fortified with encryption and access controls, accesses can be logged, they can 
be revoked, and we have a real auditing story for enterprises who have strict 
security requirements.

Thanks,

Adrian

[1] https://github.com/stackforge/barbican

On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Georgy Okrokvertskhov 
<gokrokvertsk...@mirantis.com<mailto:gokrokvertsk...@mirantis.com>>
 wrote:

Hi Lance,

Thank you for the documentation link. It really solves the problem with trust 
expiration. I really like an idea to restrict trust to specific roles. This is 
great.

As you mentioned, you use sql to store trusts information. Do you use any 
encryption for that? I am thinking from security perspective, if you have trust 
information in DB it might be not safe as this trust is a long term 
authentication.

Thanks
Georgy


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Lance D Bragstad 
<ldbra...@us.ibm.com<mailto:ldbra...@us.ibm.com>> wrote:

Hi Georgy,

The following might help with some of the trust questions you have, if you 
haven't looked at it already:
https://github.com/openstack/identity-api/blob/master/openstack-identity-api/v3/src/markdown/identity-api-v3-os-trust-ext.md

As far as storage implementation, trust uses sql and kvs backends. Trusts can 
be given an expiration but if an expiration is not given the trust is valid 
until it is explicitly revoked (taken from the link above):

  Optionally, the trust may only be valid for a specified time period, as 
defined by expires_at. If noexpires_at is specified, then the trust is valid 
until it is explicitly revoked.

Trusts can also be given 'uses' so that you can set a limit to how many times a 
trust will issue a token to the trustee. That functionality hasn't landed yet 
but it is up for review: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/56243/

Hope this helps!


Best Regards,

Lance Bragstad


<graycol.gif>Georgy Okrokvertskhov ---01/17/2014 12:11:46 PM---Hi, In Solum 
project we want to use Keystone trusts to work with other

From: Georgy Okrokvertskhov 
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Date: 01/17/2014 12:11 PM
Subject: [openstack-dev] [Solum][Keystone] Best practices for storing keystone 
trusts information

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Hi,

In Solum project we want to use Keystone trusts to work with other OpenStack 
services on behalf of user. Trusts are long term entities and a service should 
keep them for a long time.

I want to understand what are best practices for working with trusts and 
storing them in a service?

What are the options to keep trust? I see obvious approaches like keep them in 
a service DB or keep them in memory. Are there any other approaches?

Is there a proper way to renew trust? For example if I have a long term task 
which is waiting for external event, how to keep trust fresh for a long and 
unpredicted period?

Thanks
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