Re: Secure deploy of keys

Diego Zuccato <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.fai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tks.
Too bad I fear it's not applicable to my scenario.
First because the network is public. Second because ssh is just one of 
the secrets I have to distribute (others are usually SaltStack key and 
Gluster certificate).
I'm thinking that probably this is one of the few cases where a TPM is 
actually useful...
GPG encrypted tarballs can be a good solution if there's a trusted 
person that can insert the password (or a tpm that can decrypt it) to 
complete the install...

Diego

Il 13/12/2022 20:44, Andrew Ruthven ha scritto:
> Hey,
> 
> On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 14:47 +0100, Diego Zuccato wrote:
>> What's the recommended way to deploy (or re-deploy) security-sensitive
>> objects (just to say one: private ssh key to avoid client warnings when
>> redeploying a server)?
> 
> For things like ssh host keys I have a command that we run which copies 
> them into the NFSROOT, and then a cron job that runs every minute that 
> removes "expired" files from the NFSROOT. Given our NFSROOT is on a 
> restricted network I feel that is sufficient.
> 
> I know someone who had GPG encrypted tarballs, but that required 
> entering a passphrase during the build process.
> 
> Another option for ssh which I am considering is using PKI for it. Then 
> servers and clients just need to trust a CA.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
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