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Handling Encryption Keys with Cloud KMS

The process of encrypting and decrypting files requires cryptographic keys. Google Cloud’s Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) allows you to generate, use, rotate, and destroy cryptographic keys in a variety of formats. Managing the keys is another challenge, one that Cloud KMS meets with its ability to create keyrings as well as keys. In this hands-on lab, we’ll establish a new keyring and key, use them to encrypt a formerly top-secret file, and then decrypt the encrypted version.

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Path Info

Level

Beginner

Duration

30m

Published

Jun 14, 2019

Challenge

Enable Cloud KMS
1. From the main Google Cloud console navigation, choose APIs & Services > Library.
2. Search for KMS, and enable the service.
Challenge

Create a Keyring and Key
1. Activate the Cloud Shell by clicking its icon in the top navigation bar.
2. In the Cloud Shell, create the initial keyring.
3. Create a key for the new keyring.
4. List the existing keys within the CLI.
Challenge

Retrieve the Example File
1. Clone the GitHub repository: git clone https://github.com/linuxacademy/content-gcpro-security-engineer
2. Change directory to the content-gcpro-security-engineer/kms-encrypt-lab folder: cd content-gcpro-security-engineer/kms-encrypt-lab
3. Open the Cloud Shell Editor by clicking the pencil icon.
4. Review the file top-secret-ufo-1950.txt.
Challenge

Encrypt and Decrypt the File
1. In the Cloud Shell, encrypt the top-secret-ufo-1950.txt file and set the name to top-secret-ufo-1950.txt.encrypted.
2. Review the top-secret-ufo-1950.txt.encrypted file.
3. In the Cloud Shell, decrypt the encrypted file and set the name to top-secret-ufo-1950.txt.decrypted.
4. Review the top-secret-ufo-1950.txt.decrypted file.

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A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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