I want to use client-side encryption with a cloud provider

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Use Tink’s envelope encryption support to perform encryption client-side (before storing data in services like Cloud Storage or Cloud SQL), and protect your Tink-generated keys with a Key Encryption Key (KEK) that resides in your cloud provider’s Key Management System (KMS). This scheme, encrypting one key with another, is known as an envelope.

To encrypt data with envelope encryption, you provide Tink with the following:

Tink generates a Data Encryption Key (DEK) and encrypts your data with it, then calls your KMS to encrypt the DEK with your KEK. Tink returns the encrypted data and encrypted DEK for storage.

By using a remote KMS, your KEK resides safely in the cloud, where you can rotate, deactivate, or destroy it, depending on your needs. Tink automatically encrypts the DEKs you generate with your KEK and stores them as part of the encrypted data.

The following examples assume you have already created a KEK in your cloud provider’s KMS and have a key URI and credentials to pass to Tink.

Python

python/examples/envelope_aead/envelope.py
"""A command-line utility for encrypting small files using envelope encryption with GCP."""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

from absl import app
from absl import flags
from absl import logging

import tink
from tink import aead
from tink.integration import gcpkms


FLAGS = flags.FLAGS

flags.DEFINE_enum('mode', None, ['encrypt', 'decrypt'],
                  'The operation to perform.')
flags.DEFINE_string('kek_uri', None,
                    'The Cloud KMS URI of the key encryption key.')
flags.DEFINE_string('gcp_credential_path', None,
                    'Path to the GCP credentials JSON file.')
flags.DEFINE_string('input_path', None, 'Path to the input file.')
flags.DEFINE_string('output_path', None, 'Path to the output file.')
flags.DEFINE_string('associated_data', None,
                    'Optional associated data used for the encryption.')


def main(argv):
  del argv  # Unused.

  associated_data = b'' if not FLAGS.associated_data else bytes(
      FLAGS.associated_data, 'utf-8')

  # Initialise Tink
  try:
    aead.register()
  except tink.TinkError as e:
    logging.error('Error initialising Tink: %s', e)
    return 1

  # Read the GCP credentials and setup client
  try:
    gcpkms.GcpKmsClient.register_client(
        FLAGS.kek_uri, FLAGS.gcp_credential_path)
  except tink.TinkError as e:
    logging.error('Error initializing GCP client: %s', e)
    return 1

  # Create envelope AEAD primitive using AES256 GCM for encrypting the data
  try:
    template = aead.aead_key_templates.create_kms_envelope_aead_key_template(
        kek_uri=FLAGS.kek_uri,
        dek_template=aead.aead_key_templates.AES256_GCM)
    handle = tink.KeysetHandle.generate_new(template)
    env_aead = handle.primitive(aead.Aead)
  except tink.TinkError as e:
    logging.error('Error creating primitive: %s', e)
    return 1

  with open(FLAGS.input_path, 'rb') as input_file:
    input_data = input_file.read()
    if FLAGS.mode == 'decrypt':
      output_data = env_aead.decrypt(input_data, associated_data)
    elif FLAGS.mode == 'encrypt':
      output_data = env_aead.encrypt(input_data, associated_data)
    else:
      logging.error(
          'Error mode not supported. Please choose "encrypt" or "decrypt".')
      return 1

    with open(FLAGS.output_path, 'wb') as output_file:
      output_file.write(output_data)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  flags.mark_flags_as_required([
      'mode', 'kek_uri', 'gcp_credential_path', 'input_path', 'output_path'])
  app.run(main)

Java

java_src/examples/envelopeaead/EnvelopeAeadExample.java
package envelopeaead;

import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;

import com.google.crypto.tink.Aead;
import com.google.crypto.tink.KeyTemplates;
import com.google.crypto.tink.KeysetHandle;
import com.google.crypto.tink.aead.AeadConfig;
import com.google.crypto.tink.aead.KmsEnvelopeAeadKeyManager;
import com.google.crypto.tink.integration.gcpkms.GcpKmsClient;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.Optional;

/**
 * A command-line utility for encrypting small files with envelope encryption.
 *
 * <p>It requires the following arguments:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>mode: Can be "encrypt" or "decrypt" to encrypt/decrypt the input to the output.
 *   <li>kek-uri: Use this Cloud KMS' key as the key-encrypting-key for envelope encryption.
 *   <li>gcp-credential-file: Use this JSON credential file to connect to Cloud KMS.
 *   <li>input-file: Read the input from this file.
 *   <li>output-file: Write the result to this file.
 *   <li>[optional] associated-data: Associated data used for the encryption or decryption.
 */
public final class EnvelopeAeadExample {
  private static final String MODE_ENCRYPT = "encrypt";
  private static final String MODE_DECRYPT = "decrypt";

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    if (args.length != 5 && args.length != 6) {
      System.err.printf("Expected 5 or 6 parameters, got %d\n", args.length);
      System.err.println(
          "Usage: java EnvelopeAeadExample encrypt/decrypt kek-uri gcp-credential-file"
              + " input-file output-file [associated-data]");
      System.exit(1);
    }
    String mode = args[0];
    String kekUri = args[1];
    String gcpCredentialFilename = args[2];
    byte[] input = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(args[3]));
    File outputFile = new File(args[4]);
    byte[] associatedData = new byte[0];
    if (args.length == 6) {
      System.out.println("Associated data!");
      associatedData = args[5].getBytes(UTF_8);
    }
    // Initialise Tink: register all AEAD key types with the Tink runtime
    AeadConfig.register();

    // Read the GCP credentials and set up client
    try {
      GcpKmsClient.register(Optional.of(kekUri), Optional.of(gcpCredentialFilename));
    } catch (GeneralSecurityException ex) {
      System.err.println("Error initializing GCP client: " + ex);
      System.exit(1);
    }

    // Create envelope AEAD primitive using AES256 GCM for encrypting the data
    Aead aead = null;
    try {
      KeysetHandle handle =
          KeysetHandle.generateNew(
              KmsEnvelopeAeadKeyManager.createKeyTemplate(kekUri, KeyTemplates.get("AES256_GCM")));
      aead = handle.getPrimitive(Aead.class);
    } catch (GeneralSecurityException ex) {
      System.err.println("Error creating primitive: %s " + ex);
      System.exit(1);
    }

    // Use the primitive to encrypt/decrypt files.
    if (MODE_ENCRYPT.equals(mode)) {
      byte[] ciphertext = aead.encrypt(input, associatedData);
      try (FileOutputStream stream = new FileOutputStream(outputFile)) {
        stream.write(ciphertext);
      }
    } else if (MODE_DECRYPT.equals(mode)) {
      byte[] plaintext = aead.decrypt(input, associatedData);
      try (FileOutputStream stream = new FileOutputStream(outputFile)) {
        stream.write(plaintext);
      }
    } else {
      System.err.println("The first argument must be either encrypt or decrypt, got: " + mode);
      System.exit(1);
    }

    System.exit(0);
  }

  private EnvelopeAeadExample() {}
}

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