Content Comparison

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1. Secure Communication between microservices.
   • Current state and need
     

     • ONAP consists of multiple micro services which talk to each other.
       There are two types of communication. 

       1. REST API based communication.
       2. DMAPP DMAAP publish/subscriber based communication.

       Since the communication is mostly over HTTP, there is a need to protect services from:

       • Bad actors stealing the data on the wire.
       • Receiving messages from bad actors
   • Requirement:
     • Enable TLS1.2+ for securing communication among the services. Java and Python libraries do support this functionality, but easy certificate provisioning is required for Mutual TLS. This project aims to simplify PKI - certificate provisioning via a simple and secure CA service that stores private keys (CA private key at CA and user certificate private keys) securely using hardware security.
2. Storage of sensitive information such as passwords.
   • Current state and gaps
     
     • Many services in ONAP use password based authentication. Eg: Database servers, publish/subscribe brokers etc.
     • Passwords are stored in plain text files in many services.
     • With multiple instances of these services, the attach surface area becomes very big.
     • Hence there is a need to ensure that attack surface related to password exposure is reduced.
   • Requirement:
     • Need for secure secret management. Services are expected to get the secret only on needed basis using secret reference and remove the secrets once they are used up. 

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