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@@ -1,4 +1,21 @@ Custodia ======== -A service to manage, retrieve and store secrets for other processes. +A tool for managing secrets. + + +Custodia is a project that aims to define an API for modern cloud applications +that allows to easily store and share passwords, tokens, certificates and any +other secret in a way that keeps data secure, mangeable and auditable. + +The Custodia project offers example implementations of cear text and encrypted +backends, and aims to soon provide drivers to store data in external data +stores like the Vault Project, OpenStack's Barbican, FreeIPA's Vault and +similar. + +In future the Custodia project plans to enhance and enrich the API to provide +access to even more secure means of dealing with private keys, like HSM as a +Service and other similar security systems. + +See the Custodia wiki for more information about the current architecture: +https://github.com/simo5/custodia/wiki |