Using Master Encryption Keys
Use the vault master encryption keys for cryptographic operations.
For information about managing keys, see Managing Keys. For information about exporting keys, see Exporting Vault Keys and Key Versions. For information about managing the vaults in which you store keys, see Managing Vaults.
Vault cryptographic operations include the following:
- Viewing Asymmetric Public key
- Generating Data Encryption Key from Master Key key
- Encrypting Data using Master Encryption Key
- Decrypting Data Using Master Encryption Key
- Signing Data Using Master Encryption Key
- Verifying Signed Data Using Master Encryption Key
You can use either the command line interface (CLI) or API to perform cryptographic operations.
Required IAM Policy
Keys associated with volumes, buckets, file systems, clusters, and stream pools will not work unless you authorize Block Volume, Object Storage, File Storage, Kubernetes Engine, and Streaming to use keys on your behalf. Additionally, you must also authorize users to delegate key usage to these services in the first place. For more information, see Let a user group delegate key usage in a compartment and Create a policy to enable encryption keys in Common Policies. Keys associated with databases will not work unless you authorize a dynamic group that includes all nodes in the DB system to manage keys in the tenancy. For more information, see Required IAM Policy in Exadata Cloud Service
To use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, an administrator must be a member of a group granted security access in a policy by a tenancy administrator. This access is required whether you're using the Console or the REST API with an SDK, CLI, or other tool. If you get a message that you don't have permission or are unauthorized, verify with the tenancy administrator what type of access you have and which compartment your access works in.
For administrators: for typical policies that give access to vaults, keys, and secrets, see Let security admins manage vaults, keys, and secrets. For more information about permissions or if you need to write more restrictive policies, see Details for the Vault Service.
If you're new to policies, see Managing Identity Domains and Common Policies.
Monitoring Resources
You can monitor the health, capacity, and performance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources by using metrics, alarms, and notifications. For more information, see Monitoring and Notifications.