envelope.go

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// Package envelope transforms values for storage at rest using a Envelope provider
package envelope

import (
	"crypto/aes"
	"crypto/cipher"
	"crypto/rand"
	"encoding/base64"
	"fmt"
	"time"

	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/value"

	lru "github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru"
	"golang.org/x/crypto/cryptobyte"
)

func init() {
	value.RegisterMetrics()
}

// Service allows encrypting and decrypting data using an external Key Management Service.
type Service interface {
	// Decrypt a given bytearray to obtain the original data as bytes.
	Decrypt(data []byte) ([]byte, error)
	// Encrypt bytes to a ciphertext.
	Encrypt(data []byte) ([]byte, error)
}

type envelopeTransformer struct {
	envelopeService Service

	// transformers is a thread-safe LRU cache which caches decrypted DEKs indexed by their encrypted form.
	transformers *lru.Cache

	// baseTransformerFunc creates a new transformer for encrypting the data with the DEK.
	baseTransformerFunc func(cipher.Block) value.Transformer

	cacheEnabled bool
}

// NewEnvelopeTransformer returns a transformer which implements a KEK-DEK based envelope encryption scheme.
// It uses envelopeService to encrypt and decrypt DEKs. Respective DEKs (in encrypted form) are prepended to
// the data items they encrypt. A cache (of size cacheSize) is maintained to store the most recently
// used decrypted DEKs in memory.
func NewEnvelopeTransformer(envelopeService Service, cacheSize int, baseTransformerFunc func(cipher.Block) value.Transformer) (value.Transformer, error) {
	var (
		cache *lru.Cache
		err   error
	)

	if cacheSize > 0 {
		cache, err = lru.New(cacheSize)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
	}
	return &envelopeTransformer{
		envelopeService:     envelopeService,
		transformers:        cache,
		baseTransformerFunc: baseTransformerFunc,
		cacheEnabled:        cacheSize > 0,
	}, nil
}

// TransformFromStorage decrypts data encrypted by this transformer using envelope encryption.
func (t *envelopeTransformer) TransformFromStorage(data []byte, context value.Context) ([]byte, bool, error) {
	// Read the 16 bit length-of-DEK encoded at the start of the encrypted DEK. 16 bits can
	// represent a maximum key length of 65536 bytes. We are using a 256 bit key, whose
	// length cannot fit in 8 bits (1 byte). Thus, we use 16 bits (2 bytes) to store the length.
	var encKey cryptobyte.String
	s := cryptobyte.String(data)
	if ok := s.ReadUint16LengthPrefixed(&encKey); !ok {
		return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("invalid data encountered by envelope transformer: failed to read uint16 length prefixed data")
	}

	encData := []byte(s)

	// Look up the decrypted DEK from cache or Envelope.
	transformer := t.getTransformer(encKey)
	if transformer == nil {
		if t.cacheEnabled {
			value.RecordCacheMiss()
		}
		key, err := t.envelopeService.Decrypt(encKey)
		if err != nil {
			// Do NOT wrap this err using fmt.Errorf() or similar functions
			// because this gRPC status error has useful error code when
			// record the metric.
			return nil, false, err
		}

		transformer, err = t.addTransformer(encKey, key)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, false, err
		}
	}

	return transformer.TransformFromStorage(encData, context)
}

// TransformToStorage encrypts data to be written to disk using envelope encryption.
func (t *envelopeTransformer) TransformToStorage(data []byte, context value.Context) ([]byte, error) {
	newKey, err := generateKey(32)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	encKey, err := t.envelopeService.Encrypt(newKey)
	if err != nil {
		// Do NOT wrap this err using fmt.Errorf() or similar functions
		// because this gRPC status error has useful error code when
		// record the metric.
		return nil, err
	}

	transformer, err := t.addTransformer(encKey, newKey)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	result, err := transformer.TransformToStorage(data, context)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	// Append the length of the encrypted DEK as the first 2 bytes.
	b := cryptobyte.NewBuilder(nil)
	b.AddUint16LengthPrefixed(func(b *cryptobyte.Builder) {
		b.AddBytes([]byte(encKey))
	})
	b.AddBytes(result)

	return b.Bytes()
}

var _ value.Transformer = &envelopeTransformer{}

// addTransformer inserts a new transformer to the Envelope cache of DEKs for future reads.
func (t *envelopeTransformer) addTransformer(encKey []byte, key []byte) (value.Transformer, error) {
	block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	transformer := t.baseTransformerFunc(block)
	// Use base64 of encKey as the key into the cache because hashicorp/golang-lru
	// cannot hash []uint8.
	if t.cacheEnabled {
		t.transformers.Add(base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(encKey), transformer)
	}
	return transformer, nil
}

// getTransformer fetches the transformer corresponding to encKey from cache, if it exists.
func (t *envelopeTransformer) getTransformer(encKey []byte) value.Transformer {
	if !t.cacheEnabled {
		return nil
	}

	_transformer, found := t.transformers.Get(base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(encKey))
	if found {
		return _transformer.(value.Transformer)
	}
	return nil
}

// generateKey generates a random key using system randomness.
func generateKey(length int) (key []byte, err error) {
	defer func(start time.Time) {
		value.RecordDataKeyGeneration(start, err)
	}(time.Now())
	key = make([]byte, length)
	if _, err = rand.Read(key); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	return key, nil
}