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Venafi - Secrets Engines
The Venafi integrated secrets engine for Vault.

Oct 18, 2016 TPP Version = 16.3 Starting from 16.3, it is possible to request a certificate, application(s) and device(s) using a single API. Sign in Submit a request My activities Venafi Customer Support.

  1. Jun 18, 2019 This lifecycle automation for A10 devices includes provisioning processes such as key generation, certificate signing request (CSR) generation, CSR submission, CA approval, issued certificate retrieval, certificate installation, private key backup and certificate renewal.
  2. Aug 21, 2018  Venafi's solution makes CSR generation easier, as it enables organizations to create their requests from a central enrollment portal. The solution also has the ability to define default values, which decreases the time needed to complete a CSR. Lastly, companies can use the enrollment portal to integrate with any CA.

The Venafi Machine Identity Secrets Engine provides applications with theability to dynamically generate SSL/TLS certificates that serve as machineidentities. UsingVenafi Trust Protection Platformor Venafi Cloud assures compliancewith enterprise policy and consistency with industry standard trust protection.Designed for high performance with the same interface as the built-in PKIsecrets engine, services can get certificates without manually generating aprivate key and CSR, submitting to a certificate authority, and waiting for averification and signing process to complete. Venafi's certificate authorityintegrations and policy controls, combined with Vault's built-in authenticationand authorization mechanisms, provide the verification functionality.

Like the built-in PKI secrets engine, short-lived certificates for ephemeralworkloads are the primary focus of the Venafi secrets engine. As such,revocation is not currently supported.

The Venafi secrets engine makes use of HashiCorp Vault'splugin systemand Venafi's VCert Client SDK. If you havequestions about the Venafi secrets engine, have an issue to report, or havedeveloped improvements that you want to contribute, visit theGitHub repository.

Considerations

To successfully deploy this secrets engine, there are some importantconsiderations. Before using Venafi secrets engine, you should read everyconsideration.

Venafi Trust Protection Platform Requirements

Your certificate authority (CA) must be able to issue a certificate inunder one minute. Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) is apopular choice. Other CA choices may have slightly differentrequirements.

Within Trust Protection Platform, configure these settings. For moreinformation see the Venafi Administration Guide.

  • A user account that has been granted REST API (WebSDK) access.

  • A Policy folder where the user has the following permissions: View, Read,Write, Create.

  • Enterprise compliant policies applied to the folder including:

    • Subject DN values for Organizational Unit (OU), Organization (O),City/Locality (L), State/Province (ST) and Country (C).
    • CA Template that Trust Protection Platform will use to enroll generalcertificate requests.
    • Management Type not locked or locked to 'Enrollment'.
    • Certificate Signing Request (CSR) Generation unlocked or not locked to'Service Generated CSR'.
    • Generate Key/CSR on Application not locked or locked to 'No'.
    • (Recommended) Disable Automatic Renewal set to 'Yes'.
    • (Recommended) Key Bit Strength set to 2048 or higher.
    • (Recommended) Domain Whitelisting policy appropriately assigned.

    NOTE: If you are using Microsoft ACDS, the CRL distribution point andAuthority Information Access (AIA) URIs must start with an HTTP URI(non-default configuration). If an LDAP URI appears first in the X509v3extensions, some applications will fail, such as NGINX ingress controllers.These applications aren't able to retrieve CRL and OCSP information.

Trust between Vault and Trust Protection Platform

The Trust Protection Platform REST API (WebSDK) must be secured with acertificate. Generally, the certificate is issued by a CA that is not publiclytrusted so establishing trust is a critical part of your setup.

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Two methods can be used to establish trust. Both require the trust anchor(root CA certificate) of the WebSDK certificate. If you have administrativeaccess, you can import the root certificate into the trust store for youroperating system. If you don't have administrative access, or prefer not tomake changes to your system configuration, save the root certificate to a filein PEM format (e.g. /opt/venafi/bundle.pem) and reference it using thetrust_bundle_file parameter whenever you create or update a PKI role in yourVault.

Venafi Cloud Requirements

If you are using Venafi Cloud, be sure to set up an issuing template, project,and any other dependencies that appear in the Venafi Cloud documentation.

  • Set up an issuing template to link Venafi Cloud to your CA. To learn more,search for 'Issuing Templates' in theVenafi Cloud Help system.
  • Create a project and zone that identifies the template and other information.To learn more, search for 'Projects' in theVenafi Cloud Help system.

Setup

Before certificates can be issued, you must complete these steps to configure theVenafi secrets engine:

Key/csr

  1. Create the directorywhere your Vault server will look for plugins (e.g. /etc/vault/vault_plugins).The directory must not be a symbolic link. On macOS, for example, /etc is alink to /private/etc. To avoid errors, choose an alternative directory suchas /private/etc/vault/vault_plugins.

  2. Download the latest vault-pki-backend-venafirelease packagefor your operating system. Unzip the binary to the plugin directory. Notethat the URL for the zip file, referenced below, changes as new versions of theplugin are released.

  3. Update the Vault server configurationto specify the plugin directory:

  4. Start your Vault using the server command.

  5. Get the SHA-256 checksum of the vault-pki-backend-venafi plugin binary:

  6. Register the vault-pki-backend-venafi plugin in the Vaultsystem catalog:

  7. Enable the Venafi secrets engine:

  8. Configure a rolethat maps a name in Vault to a procedure for enrolling certificate using Venafi.The zone is a policy folder for Trust Protection Platform or a DevOps projectzone for Venafi Cloud. Avoid setting both store_by_serial and store_by_cnto true. To see other available options for the role after it is created, usevault path-help venafi-pki/roles/:name.

    Trust Protection Platform:

    Venafi Cloud:

Usage

After the Venafi secrets engine is configured and a user/machine has a Vaulttoken with the proper permission, it can enroll certificates using Venafi.

  1. Generate a certificate by writing to the /issue endpoint with the name ofthe role:

    Trust Protection Platform:

    Venafi Cloud:

  2. Or sign a CSR from a file by writing to the /sign endpoint with the name ofthe role:

    Trust Protection Platform:

    Venafi Cloud:

API

Generate Key Csr On Application Venafi Pdf

Venafi Machine Identity Secrets Engine uses the sameVault APIas the built-in PKI secrets engine. Some methods, such as those formanaging certificate authorities, do not apply.

That generates a 2048-bit RSA key pair, encrypts them with a password you provide and writes them to a file. You need to next extract the public key file. You will use this, for instance, on your web server to encrypt content so that it can only be read with the private key. Export the RSA Public Key to a File. This is a command that is. Openssl rsa -in private.pem -outform PEM -pubout -out public.pem. The openssl req command from the answer by @Tom H is correct to create a self-signed certificate in server.cert incl. A password-less RSA private key in server.key: Here is how it works. Omitting -des3 as in the answer by @MadHatter is not enough in this case to create a private key without passphrase. To then obtain the matching public key, you need to use openssl rsa, supplying the same passphrase with the -passin parameter as was used to encrypt the private key: openssl rsa -passin file:passphrase.txt -pubout (This expects the encrypted private key on standard input. Openssl generate keypair.

Venafi Generate Csr

Using your own DigiCert Private PKI Certificates in your Venafi Cloud DevOps environment

DigiCert has integrated with Venafi Cloud to improve how DevOps testing environments incorporate digital certificates into their workflows. DigiCert is offering Venafi Cloud for DevOps customers limited-use Private PKI certificates, making it easier for them to:

  • Protect their DevOps environments
  • Ensure that security can be part of their development cycle right from the start
  • Enforce their security policies

Are you planning to make Venafi Cloud for DevOps a more permanent part of your DevOps environment? You may want to turn your instance into a dedicated trust environment by using your own Private PKI certificates for added security. Venafi has made it easy for their customers to issue their own DigiCert Private PKI certificates within their Cloud environments through our CertCentral® platform.

For more information about DigiCert integration with Venafi Cloud for DevOps, see Automating PKI for Secure DevOps. To learn more about obtaining a Venafi Cloud for DevOps account, see Venafi Cloud for DevOps. To learn more about obtaining your own Private PKI Solution for your Venafi Cloud instance, please contact DigiCert at venafi-contact@digicert.com.