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| author |   Kiran Kamineni <kiran.k.kamineni@intel.com> | 2018-05-22 17:38:16 -0700 |
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| committer |   Girish Havaldar <hg0071052@techmahindra.com> | 2018-05-23 06:30:48 +0000 |
| commit | 78d594b5a54dd45aebe3ac05a256ce43ca4213b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 78fe13a2547763a2bf7465b7150e3a4d246d310e /docs/architecture.rst | |
| parent | cd6ef3a93d3dae845ba0333de9caa52c99923e9b (diff) | |
Add release notes and fix docs
Add release notes for SMS
Fix other docs issues in SMS
Issue-ID: AAF-185
Change-Id: Ib3860018229b61942ab8a48cfdafe0b3f21ceed1
Signed-off-by: Kiran Kamineni <kiran.k.kamineni@intel.com>
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diff --git a/docs/architecture.rst b/docs/architecture.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3055ae3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/architecture.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 +.. Copyright 2018 Intel Corporation, Inc + +Architecture +============ + +This project aims at the Storage of sensitive information such as passwords, username, and tokens. + +**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 attack 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. + +**Secret Service High Level Flow Diagram** + +.. image:: sms_high_level.png + :width: 900px + :height: 400px + :alt: SMS Flow Diagram |