keyprotect-python-client

A Pythonic client for IBM Key Protect

This is a thin wrapper around the KeyProtect client in the redstone Python package. For detailed documentation and API references, please see the redstone docs

Installation

The client is available on PyPI as the keyprotect package and is installable via pip:

pip install -U keyprotect

Usage

The following python is a quick example of how to use the keyprotect module.

The example expects IBMCLOUD_API_KEY to be set to a valid IAM API key, and KP_INSTANCE_ID to be set to the UUID identifying your KeyProtect instance.

import os

import keyprotect
from keyprotect import bxauth


tm = bxauth.TokenManager(api_key=os.getenv("IBMCLOUD_API_KEY"))

kp = keyprotect.Client(
    credentials=tm,
    region="us-south",
    service_instance_id=os.getenv("KP_INSTANCE_ID")
)

for key in kp.keys():
    print("%s\t%s" % (key["id"], key["name"]))

key = kp.create(name="MyTestKey")
print("Created key '%s'" % key['id'])

kp.delete(key_id=key.get('id'))
print("Deleted key '%s'" % key['id'])


# wrap and unwrap require a non-exportable key,
# these are also referred to as root keys
key = kp.create(name="MyRootKey", root=True)

# wrap/unwrap, payload should be a bytestring if python3
message = b'This is a really important message.'
wrapped = kp.wrap(key_id=key.get('id'), plaintext=message)
ciphertext = wrapped.get("ciphertext")

unwrapped = kp.unwrap(key_id=key.get('id'), ciphertext=ciphertext)
assert message == unwrapped

# wrap/unwrap with AAD
message = b'This is a really important message too.'
wrapped = kp.wrap(key_id=key.get('id'), plaintext=message, aad=['python-keyprotect'])
ciphertext = wrapped.get("ciphertext")

unwrapped = kp.unwrap(key_id=key.get('id'), ciphertext=ciphertext, aad=['python-keyprotect'])
assert message == unwrapped