Data encryption capabilities¶

This section provides an overview of the data protection capabilities available in MOSK, focusing primarily on data encryption. You will gain insights into different data encryption features of MOSK, understand the type of data they protect, where encryption occurs concerning cloud boundaries, and whether these mechanisms are available by default or require explicit enablement by the cloud operator or cloud user.

Data protection capabilities¶
Data protection capability	Data category	Data	Protection type	Protection boundaries	Availability
Encryption of MOSK internal communications	User, system	Cloud control plane traffic	In-flight	Cloud control plane including all the nodes	Enabled by default.
Encryption of data transfer for noVNC	User	Instance VNC console access traffic	In-flight	Cloud user - Compute hypervisor	Disabled by default. Enabled by the cloud operator.
Encryption of east-west tenant traffic	Application	Instance network traffic	In-flight	Private network	Disabled by default. Enabled by the cloud operator.
Block storage volume encryption	Application	Volumes	In-flight and at-rest	Compute hypervisor - storage cluster	Disabled by default. Enabled by the cloud operator. Activated by the cloud user per each volume.
Ephemeral storage encryption	Application	Instances ephemeral storage	At-rest	Compute hypervisor	Disabled by default. Enabled by the cloud operator per compute node.
Object storage server-side encryption	Application	Object data	In-flight and at-rest	Cloud API - Storage cluster	Enabled by default. Activated by the cloud user per object bucket.
Live migration data encryption	Application	Inside memory and ephemeral storage	In-flight	Source hypervisor - Target hypervisor	Disabled by default. Enabled by the cloud operator.
API communications encryption	User	User communication with the cloud API	In-flight	Cloud user - Cloud API	Always enabled.
HashiCorp Vault as the back end for the Key Manager service	Application	Application secrets	At-rest	HashiCorp Vault service 0	Disabled by default. Enabled by the cloud operator.
Hiding sensitive information in OpenStackDeployment	System	OpenStack configuration secrets	At-rest	MOSK underlay Kubernetes cluster	Always enabled. Activated by the cloud operator per configuration secret.

0: Communication between HashiCort Vault and Key Manager is protected with TLS/SSL