Request for python version of AesKeyRing

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
aws, java, python
Domain
cloud, cryptography, security

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Java AesKeyring.java implementation and the S3EncryptionClient usage, then trace the Python package's existing encryption and keyring entry points. Done means a Python AesKeyRing equivalent can generate data keys with a caller-provided, non-KMS wrapping-key generator and decrypt data produced by the Java client.

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Description

Problem

  • Our producer is java based which uses AesKeyRIng with S3EncryptionClient to encrypt data.
  • But our consumer side requiring to decrypt data is in Python. However, Python does not contain AesKeyRing equivalent.

We use AesKeyRing to generate DataKeys with our own WrappingKey generator , which is NOT KMS. This is a hard requirement for us and AesKeyRing unblocked us in java. However, we are blocked in python as its not available.

I wanted to raise this request to the team to implement a python version of AesKeyRing , so that we can be unblocked.

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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