Confidant style KMS-based authentication in Go

kms_auth.go

/*
Copyright 2016 Alex Smolen (https://alexsmolen.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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*/

package main

import (
	"encoding/base64"
	"fmt"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/kms"
	"os"
	"time"
)

type EncryptionContextValue map[string]*string

func main() {
	keyID := os.Getenv("KMS_KEY_ID")
	region := os.Getenv("AWS_REGION")
	from := os.Args[1]
	to := os.Args[2]
	now := time.Now().UTC()
	minutes := 60
	format := "20060102T150405Z"
	end := now.Add(time.Duration(minutes) * time.Minute)
	startTime := now.Format(format)
	endTime := end.Format(format)
	context := make(EncryptionContextValue)
	plaintext := `{"not_before": "` + startTime + `", "not_after": "` + endTime + `"}`
	context["from"] = aws.String(from)
	context["to"] = aws.String(to)
	context["user_type"] = aws.String("user")
	config := &aws.Config{Region: aws.String(region)}
	kmsClient := kms.New(session.New(), config)

	// Encrypt plaintext to get token
	encrypted, err := Encrypt(kmsClient, keyID, []byte(plaintext), context)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println("Encrypted (token to use): ", base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(encrypted))

	// Decrypt ciphertext to verify everything worked
	decrypted, err := Decrypt(kmsClient, encrypted, context)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println("Decrypted: ", string(decrypted))
}

func Encrypt(kmsClient *kms.KMS, keyID string, plaintext []byte, encContext EncryptionContextValue) ([]byte, error) {
	params := &kms.EncryptInput{
		Plaintext:         plaintext,
		EncryptionContext: encContext,
		GrantTokens:       []*string{},
		KeyId:             aws.String(keyID),
	}
	resp, err := kmsClient.Encrypt(params)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	return resp.CiphertextBlob, nil
}

func Decrypt(kmsClient *kms.KMS, ciphertext []byte, encContext EncryptionContextValue) ([]byte, error) {
	params := &kms.DecryptInput{
		CiphertextBlob:    ciphertext,
		EncryptionContext: encContext,
		GrantTokens:       []*string{},
	}
	resp, err := kmsClient.Decrypt(params)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	return resp.Plaintext, nil
}

This is really great! Is there any way you can license this as Apache2. I'd love to pull this into a library and add support for multiple token versions.

@ryan-lane Done, I think. Let me know if that works.

So timely! Thank you for this!