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Encrypt/decrypt with AWS KMS using AWS cli
# How to encrypt/decrypt your text/blob secret with AWS KMS with AWS cli
KEY_ID=alias/my-key
SECRET_BLOB_PATH=fileb://my-secret-blob
SECRET_TEXT="my secret text"
ENCRYPTED_SECRET_AS_BLOB=encrypted_secret_blob
DECRYPTED_SECRET_AS_BLOB=decrypted_secret_blob # Result of decrypt-blob target
encrypt-text:
aws kms encrypt --key-id ${KEY_ID} --plaintext ${SECRET_TEXT} --query CiphertextBlob --output text \
| base64 --decode > ${ENCRYPTED_SECRET_AS_BLOB}
decrypt-text:
aws kms decrypt --ciphertext-blob fileb://${ENCRYPTED_SECRET_AS_BLOB} --query Plaintext --output text \
| base64 --decode
encrypt-blob:
aws kms encrypt --key-id ${KEY_ID} --plaintext ${SECRET_BLOB_PATH} --query CiphertextBlob --output text \
| base64 --decode > ${ENCRYPTED_SECRET_AS_BLOB}
decrypt-blob:
aws kms decrypt --ciphertext-blob fileb://${ENCRYPTED_SECRET_AS_BLOB} --query Plaintext --output text \
| base64 --decode > ${DECRYPTED_SECRET_AS_BLOB}
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