What is the encryption key password?
The encryption key is an element of the LiveVault security that protects your data. The system creates an encryption key and gives you a password to that key when you add a new LiveVault computer agent for the first time.
Where are key encryption keys stored?
The encryption key is created and stored on the key management server. The key manager creates the encryption key through the use of a cryptographically secure random bit generator and stores the key, along with all it’s attributes, into the key storage database.
Is a cryptographic key a password?
A password is a user created secret phrase that is used to verify identity or generate cryptographic keys. A key is data that is used to lock and unlock cryptographic functions such as encryption, authentication and authorization.
How is a session key used in encryption?
A session key is any encryption key used to symmetrically encrypt one communication session only. In other words, it’s a temporary key that is only used once, during one stretch of time, for encrypting and decrypting data; future conversations between the two parties would be encrypted with different session keys.
Why do you need to store encrypted user data?
The key that actually encrypts the data is only decrypted long enough to decrypt the data that it encrypted. You’ll need to store that key in the session in order to avoid the need to ask the user for his password on each decryption occurance.
How to encrypt a password with PBKDF2?
Password ⟶ Converted into Key #2 with PBKDF2. This key, Key #2, is used to encrypt Key #1. You’ll want to persist Key #2 in the user’s session. Store the encrypted form of Key #1 in the user table, in a field called (perhaps) “encryptedkey”.
Where are encryption keys stored in a database?
The resulting ciphertext of the data encryption key could then be stored safely in the user table of your database (call the field “encryptedkey” if you like). In this way, the user’s password will become the means to decrypt the user’s encrypted key.