Cryptographic key storage server

[mohanradhakrishnan]

Hi,

What are the features available in 2008 server to store keys that we require for various SFTP, FTPS and other encryption ? We generate keys using GPG, ssh-keygen etc. and we would like to store them securely. Since our OS is 2008 server we would like to use its features to store the keys securely and retrieve them.

 

Has anyone used these features in 2008 ? Windows technology is not involved in the generation of keys but only in storage and retrieval.

 

Thanks,

Mohan

[mohanradhakrishnan]

I am just trying to understand if the key archival and management in Windows 2008 supports archival of external keys generated by other tools. I did ready a doc. written by Avi Ben-Menahem on this.

 

What is the procedure for this ?

 

Thanks,

Mohan

[mohanradhakrishnan]

Hi,

Just trying to find out if anybody has experience with the Key Management Service in Windows 2008. We want to use it for key archival only. The keys are generated externally using non-windows methods.

 

I initially thought a Key Recovery Agent role can archive external keys also using Windows 2008.

 

Thanks,

Mohan