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Stratara 4.6.0
An erasure shreds every key that names the subject, and nothing stopped the next encryption for that subject
from creating a new one: a key store asked for a scope it does not hold creates a first version. A job, a request
in flight or a second process that encrypted for an erased subject afterwards got a fresh key, and what it wrote
stayed readable for good. The key store now records an erased subject and refuses to create a key for it again.
Added
IKeyStore.MarkSubjectErasedAsync(KeySubject)records that a tenant or user has been erased. It has a
default implementation that throwsNotSupportedException, so an existing key store still compiles.KeySubjectnames the tenant or user, andKeySubject.Covers(KeyScope)states which keys belong to its
erasure: for a tenant, a key of any level that names it; for a user, a user-level key that names it.KeyScopeErasedException(anInvalidOperationException) is what a key store throws for such a scope. It
carries the refusedScope.
Changed
- An encryption for an erased subject fails. After a subject's erasure,
GetOrCreateCurrentKeyAsyncand
RotateAsyncthrowKeyScopeErasedExceptionfor every scope the subject covers, whether or not it ever held a
key, and create nothing. The blob encryptor, the encrypting settings store and the field-encrypting serializer
pass it through. Code that erased a subject and then wrote encrypted data for it again now sees the exception;
the mark is permanent and cannot be lifted. Revoking every version of a scope is not an erasure and marks nothing. ISubjectErasermarks the subject before it sweeps any plane, so an encryption racing the erasure
either creates its key first, and that key is shredded with the rest, or is refused. A key store that cannot mark
a subject leaves the erasure as before and logsSubjectNotMarkable(112009).- The file-backed key store writes format version 2, which holds the marks, and refuses to open a file in a
newer format than it knows.InMemoryKeyStorerefuses an erased subject as the file store does;DummyKeyStore
refuses to mark one, as it refuses every erasure operation.
Upgrading:
- Upgrade every process that shares a key store file in one step. A process on an earlier release reads a
version-2 file, ignores the marks, creates keys for an erased subject and drops the marks the next time it writes
the file. A version-1 file needs no migration. Rolling back is possible but loses the marks on the first write. - Map
KeyScopeErasedExceptionto your answer for data that is gone, if a request can reach an encryption for
a subject after its erasure. - A key store of your own implements
MarkSubjectErasedAsync, refusing inGetOrCreateCurrentKeyAsyncand
RotateAsyncevery scope a marked subjectCovers. Without it the erasure warns and the gap stays open.