Barbican/Discussion-Federated-Barbican
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This wiki page is a work in progress, intended to get contributors thinking about how to implement a Federated Barbican.
There is a current desire for Barbican to be able to federate secrets from a private cloud into a public cloud.
Overview
In the current Barbican implementation, only one secret crypto device may be attached to the back end. This becomes problematic when a client wants to hook up their KMIP device within a public cloud infrastructure. The proposed solution is to create a federated barbican where a separate barbican is put in front of a client's KMIP device on-prem and when a request is made to the public barbican, it is authenticated and routed to the private Barbican when necessary.
