AWS KMS Boilerplate

This repository contains the example code for the blog post "Painlessly storing security sensitive data using AWS KMS and OpenSSL"

Usage

• Setup your AWS account
• Create an AWS KMS Customer Master Key as described and assign an alias to it as described in step 1 and 2 of the article.
• Place your security sensitive data such as API keys, database credentials etc. in the .decrypted/ folder.
• For encryption execute ./bin/encrypt --kms_key_id=alias/your-key.
• For decryption execute ./bin/decrypt.
• Note: activate the debugging mode by passing --debug=true into the script

License

This distribution is covered by the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3, 29 June 2007.

Support & Contact

Having trouble with this repository? Check out the documentation at the repository's site or contact m@matchilling.com and we’ll help you sort it out.

Happy Coding

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