Encryption Key Management
On this page
- Encryption Components
- Supported Key Management Services
- Reasons to Use a Remote Key Management System
- Manage a Data Encryption Key's Alternate Name
- Create a Data Encryption Key with an Alternate Name
- Use Key Alternate Names in an Automatic Encryption Schema
- Procedure: Rotate Encryption Keys Using Mongo Shell
- Delete a Data Encryption Key
- Learn More
In this guide, you can learn how to manage your encryption keys with a Key Management System (KMS) in your Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE)-enabled application.
Encryption Components
MongoDB uses the following components to perform Client-Side Field Level Encryption:
Data Encryption Keys (DEK)s
Customer Master Keys (CMK)s
Key Vault collections
Key Management System (KMS)
To learn more about keys and key vaults, see Keys and Key Vaults.
Supported Key Management Services
Client-Side Field Level Encryption supports the following Key Management System providers:
Amazon Web Services KMS
Azure Key Vault
Google Cloud KMS
Any KMIP Compliant Key Management System
Local Key Provider (for testing only)
The default KMIP protocol version is 1.2. You can configure MongoDB to use KMIP version 1.0 or 1.1 in the MongoDB server configuration file.
To learn more about these providers, including diagrams that show how your application uses them to perform Client-Side Field Level Encryption, see CSFLE KMS Providers.
Reasons to Use a Remote Key Management System
Using a remote Key Management System to manage your Customer Master Key has the following advantages over using your local filesystem to host the CMK:
Secure storage of the key with access auditing
Reduced risk of access permission issues
Availability and distribution of the key to remote clients
Automated key backup and recovery
Centralized encryption key lifecycle management
Additionally, for the following KMS providers, your KMS remotely encrypts and decrypts your Data Encryption Key, ensuring your Customer Master Key is never exposed to your CSFLE-enabled application:
Amazon Web Services KMS
Azure Key Vault
Google Cloud KMS
Manage a Data Encryption Key's Alternate Name
You can assign a Data Encryption Key alternate names to make the key easier to reference. Assigning alternate names allows you to perform the following actions:
Reference a DEK by different means than the
_id
field.Dynamically assign DEKs at runtime.
Create a Data Encryption Key with an Alternate Name
Important
Prerequisite
Prior to adding a new key alternate name, you must create a unique
index on the keyAltNames
field. Client-Side Field Level Encryption depends on
server-enforced uniqueness of key alternate names.
To learn how to create a unique index, see Unique Indexes.
The following example creates a Data Encryption Key with an alternate name. Select the tab that corresponds to your driver language:
var autoEncryptionOpts = { keyVaultNamespace: keyVaultNamespace, kmsProviders: kmsProviders, }; var encryptedClient = Mongo( connectionString, autoEncryptionOpts ); var clientEncryption = encryptedClient.getClientEncryption(); var masterKey = { "<Your dataKeyOpts Key>": "<Your dataKeyOpts Value>", }; var keyVault = encryptedClient.getKeyVault(); var keyId = keyVault.createKey("aws", masterKey, ["<Your Key Alt Name>"]);
var keyVaultClient = new MongoClient(connectionString); var clientEncryptionOptions = new ClientEncryptionOptions( keyVaultClient: keyVaultClient, keyVaultNamespace: keyVaultNamespace, kmsProviders: kmsProviders); var clientEncryption = new ClientEncryption(clientEncryptionOptions); var dataKeyOptions = new DataKeyOptions( alternateKeyNames: new[] { "<Your Key Alt Name>" }, masterKey: new BsonDocument { { "<Your dataKeyOpts Keys>", "<Your dataKeyOpts Values>" }, }); var dataKeyId = clientEncryption.CreateDataKey("<Your KMS Provider>", dataKeyOptions, CancellationToken.None);
clientEncryptionOpts := options.ClientEncryption().SetKeyVaultNamespace(KeyVaultNamespace).SetKmsProviders(kmsProviders) keyVaultClient, err := mongo.Connect(context.TODO(), options.Client().ApplyURI(URI)) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("Client connect error %v", err) } clientEnc, err := mongo.NewClientEncryption(keyVaultClient, clientEncryptionOpts) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("NewClientEncryption error %v", err) } defer func() { _ = clientEnc.Close(context.TODO()) }() masterKey := map[string]interface{}{ "<Your dataKeyOpts Key>": "<Your dataKeyOpts Value>", } dataKeyOpts := options.DataKey(). SetMasterKey(masterKey). SetKeyAltNames([]string{"<Your Key Alt Name>"}) dataKeyID, err := clientEnc.CreateDataKey(context.TODO(), provider, dataKeyOpts) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("create data key error %v", err) }
ClientEncryptionSettings clientEncryptionSettings = ClientEncryptionSettings.builder() .keyVaultMongoClientSettings(MongoClientSettings.builder() .applyConnectionString(new ConnectionString(connectionString)) .build()) .keyVaultNamespace(keyVaultNamespace) .kmsProviders(kmsProviders) .build(); ClientEncryption clientEncryption = ClientEncryptions.create(clientEncryptionSettings); BsonDocument masterKeyProperties = new BsonDocument(); masterKeyProperties.put("provider", new BsonString("<Your KMS Provider>")); masterKeyProperties.put("<Your dataKeyOpts Key>", new BsonString("<Your dataKeyOpts Value>")); List keyAltNames = new ArrayList<String>(); keyAltNames.add("<Your Key Alt Name>"); BsonBinary dataKeyId = clientEncryption.createDataKey(kmsProvider, new DataKeyOptions().masterKey(masterKeyProperties).keyAltNames(keyAltNames));
const encryption = new ClientEncryption(client, { keyVaultNamespace, kmsProviders, }); const masterKey = { "<Your dataKeyOpts Key>": "<Your dataKeyOpts Value>", }; const key = await encryption.createDataKey(provider, { masterKey: masterKey, keyAltNames: ["<Your Key Alt Name>"], });
client = MongoClient(connection_string) client_encryption = ClientEncryption( kms_providers, key_vault_namespace, client, CodecOptions(uuid_representation=STANDARD), ) master_key={ "<Your dataKeyOpts Key>" : "<Your dataKeyOpts Value>"} data_key_id = client_encryption.create_data_key(provider, master_key, key_alt_names=["<Your Key Alt Name>"])
To learn more about dataKeyOpts
and kmsProviders
objects, see
CSFLE KMS Providers.
Use Key Alternate Names in an Automatic Encryption Schema
Encryption schemas contain user-specified rules that identify which fields must be encrypted and how to encrypt those fields. In your encryption rules, you can specify alternate key names name for the Data Encryption Key which encrypts your field.
You must refer to a key alternate name with a JSON pointer. A JSON
pointer is a string prefixed with a "/"
character that can be used
to access a particular field value in the same or another document. Use
JSON pointers to reference a field in your query or update document
which contains the value of your key alternate name.
Important
Cannot Use Alternate Name for Deterministically Encrypted Field
You cannot reference a DEK by it's alternate name when
encrypting a field with the deterministic encryption algorithm. To encrypt your field
deterministically, you must specify the _id
of the key you would
like to use to encrypt your field.
Reference Key Alternate Name in an Encryption Schema
Consider the following encryption schema which encrypts the salary
field:
{ "<database>.<collection>": { "bsonType": "object", "properties": { "salary": { "encrypt": { "bsonType": "int", "keyId": "/fieldWithAltName", "algorithm": "AEAD_AES_256_CBC_HMAC_SHA_512-Random" } } } } }
The schema's keyId
field contains a JSON pointer to reference the
fieldWithAltName
field within the documents being encrypted.
The following document's fieldWithAltName
value is my-alt-name
:
{ "name": "Jon Doe", "salary": 45000, "fieldWithAltName": "my-alt-name" }
The salary
field is encrypted by the DEK that has the
alternate name my-alt-name
.
Dynamically Assign Keys at Runtime
You can use alternate key names to dynamically set the Data Encryption Key for a field at runtime. Use this functionality to encrypt individual documents with different DEKs using the same encryption schema.
For example, consider the following documents:
{ "name": "Jon Doe", "salary": 45000, "fieldWithAltName": "my-alt-name" }, { "name": "Jane Smith", "salary": 70000, "fieldWithAltName": "my-other-alt-name" }
You insert the preceding documents using a CSFLE-enabled client configured with the encryption schema from the previous example.
In the encryption schema, the salary.encrypt.keyId
field contains a
JSON pointer to the fieldWithAltName
field of the inserted document.
As a result, the salary
fields in the two example documents are
each encrypted using a DEK specific to the individual
document. The keys are assigned dynamically at runtime.
Procedure: Rotate Encryption Keys Using Mongo Shell
With version 1.5 and later of the Mongo Shell, you can rotate encryption keys
using the rewrapManyDataKey
method. The rewrapManyDataKey
method
automatically decrypts multiple data keys and re-encrypts them using a specified
Customer Master Key. It then updates the rotated keys in the key vault collection.
This method allows you to rotate encryption keys based on two optional arguments:
A filter used to specify which keys to rotate. If no data key matches the given filter, no keys are rotated. Omit the filter to rotate all keys in your key vault collection.
An object that represents a new CMK. Omit this object to rotate the data keys using their current CMKs.
The rewrapManyDataKey
uses the following syntax:
keyVault = db.getKeyVault() keyVault.rewrapManyDataKey( { "<Your custom filter>" }, { provider: "<KMS provider>", masterKey: { "<dataKeyOpts Key>" : "<dataKeyOpts Value>" } } )
To learn more about the dataKeyOpts
object for your KMS provider, see
Supported Key Management Services.
Delete a Data Encryption Key
You can delete a Data Encryption Key from your Key Vault collection using standard CRUD delete operations. If you delete a DEK, all fields encrypted with that DEK become permanently unreadable.
Tip
MongoDB Shell Specific Feature
The MongoDB shell allows you to delete a DEK by UUID
using
the keyVault.deleteKey()
method as follows:
keyVault = db.getKeyVault() keyVault.deleteKey(UUID("<UUID String>"))
To learn more about Key Vault collections see Key Vault Collections.
Learn More
For tutorials detailing how to set up a CSFLE-enabled application with each of the supported KMS providers, see the following pages:
To view additional examples of encryption schemas, see CSFLE Encryption Schemas.