Export

Specification

This operation requests that the server returns a Managed Object specified by its Unique Identifier, together with its attributes.

The Key Format Type, Key Wrap Type, Key Compression Type and Key Wrapping Specification SHALL have the same semantics as for the Get operation. If the Managed Object has been Destroyed then the key material for the specified managed object SHALL not be returned in the response.

The server SHALL copy the Unique Identifier returned by this operations into the ID Placeholder variable.

Implementation

The Export operation - contrarily to the Getoperation - allows exporting objects which have been revoked or destroyed. When an object is destroyed, the key material cannot be exported anymore; only the attributes are returned.

To be able to export an Object the user must have the export permission on the object or be the object owner.

Key wrapping and unwrapping on export is supported for all keys. Please check the algorithms page for more details.

For the list of supported key formats, please check the formats page.

Examples - Check Get

An export example is provided below but it is in every point similar to the Get operation save for the name of the operation. To run Export instead of Get with he ckms CLI, pass the --allow-revoked flag on the command line.

Please check the Get page for more examples.

Example - Symmetric Key

Exporting a symmetric key 027cced1-ff2b-4bd3-a200-db1041583bdc (go to Create to see how to create the symmetric key).

Instead of using the UID of the key, we can use the unique tag of the key MySymmetricKey. The key must be uniquely identified. It is possible to use multiple tags to identify a key; for instance symmetric keys automatically get a system tag _kk. See tagging for more information on tags.

The response is in Rawformat, the default format for symmetric keys specified by KMIP 2.1; see the formats page for details.

Corresponding ckms CLI command:

ckms sym keys export -t "MySymmetricKey" /tmp/sym_key.json  --allow-revoked

RequestResponse

    {
      "tag": "Export",
      "type": "Structure",
      "value": [
        {
          "tag": "UniqueIdentifier",
          "type": "TextString",
          "value": "[\"MySymmetricKey\"]"
        },
        {
          "tag": "KeyWrapType",
          "type": "Enumeration",
          "value": "AsRegistered"
        }
      ]
    }

    {
      "tag": "GetResponse",
      "type": "Structure",
      "value": [
        {
          "tag": "ObjectType",
          "type": "Enumeration",
          "value": "SymmetricKey"
        },
        {
          "tag": "UniqueIdentifier",
          "type": "TextString",
          "value": "027cced1-ff2b-4bd3-a200-db1041583bdc"
        },
        {
          "tag": "Object",
          "type": "Structure",
          "value": [
            {
              "tag": "KeyBlock",
              "type": "Structure",
              "value": [
                {
                  "tag": "KeyFormatType",
                  "type": "Enumeration",
                  "value": "Raw"
                },
                {
                  "tag": "KeyValue",
                  "type": "Structure",
                  "value": [
                    {
                      "tag": "KeyMaterial",
                      "type": "ByteString",
                      "value": "0B3E539510BABD291BB9FEC2A390C833B05465F33374575CE4AAFFABD5E93020"
                    },
                    {
                      "tag": "Attributes",
                      "type": "Structure",
                      "value": [
                        {
                          "tag": "CryptographicAlgorithm",
                          "type": "Enumeration",
                          "value": "AES"
                        },
                        {
                          "tag": "CryptographicLength",
                          "type": "Integer",
                          "value": 256
                        },
                        {
                          "tag": "CryptographicUsageMask",
                          "type": "Integer",
                          "value": 2108
                        },
                        {
                          "tag": "KeyFormatType",
                          "type": "Enumeration",
                          "value": "TransparentSymmetricKey"
                        },
                        {
                          "tag": "ObjectType",
                          "type": "Enumeration",
                          "value": "SymmetricKey"
                        }
                      ]
                    }
                  ]
                },
                {
                  "tag": "CryptographicAlgorithm",
                  "type": "Enumeration",
                  "value": "AES"
                },
                {
                  "tag": "CryptographicLength",
                  "type": "Integer",
                  "value": 256
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }