Comments - Data-at-Rest Encryption Overview

7 years, 5 months ago Vladislav Vaintroub

Does the aws-kms-key contain master key id?

We don't record it ourselves, the contents of the file is just cipherblob from GenerateDataKey() response. But AWS knows which keys was used. The question "how does it know" interesting, I'll check the KMS documentation.

 
7 years, 5 months ago Vladislav Vaintroub

Ok, found a (slightly cryptic) explanation here, on slide 18, under 4.

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/encryption-and-key-management-in-aws

The cipherblob we get with GenerateDataKey and store on disk, actually contains encrypted master key id + datakey.

 
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