Add Tink signing backend

[haydentherapper]

Summary

This adds support for using encrypted Tink keysets to load a signer.
There are two main benefits from this work: We can leverage this instead
of KMS if we need to support a higher QPS, and Tink keysets use strong
secure defaults. Keysets can be encrypted with AESGCM, do not rely on a
KDF, cannot be brute-forced, and access to the key can be audited
through cloud audit logs.

Tink does not provide a method to extract the signing key from the
keyset intentionally, so I wrote a helper library to reach into the key
handle proto to construct a crypto.Signer.

Signed-off-by: Hayden Blauzvern [email protected]

Ticket Link

Fixes #646

Release Note

Added Tink signing backend for signing certificates with a local encrypted Tink keyset

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Codecov Report

Merging #645 (4302340) into main (ce8d2fb) will decrease coverage by 0.17%.
The diff coverage is 63.46%.

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Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
pkg/ca/fileca/fileca.go	48.48% <ø> (ø)
pkg/ca/googleca/v1/googleca.go	52.25% <0.00%> (ø)
pkg/ca/tinkca/tinkca.go	37.93% <37.93%> (ø)
pkg/ca/tinkca/signer.go	57.14% <57.14%> (ø)
pkg/ca/baseca/baseca.go	56.09% <66.66%> (ø)
pkg/ca/common.go	85.93% <85.93%> (ø)
pkg/ca/ephemeralca/ephemeral.go	70.73% <100.00%> (+0.73%)	⬆️
pkg/ca/extensions.go	100.00% <100.00%> (ø)
pkg/ca/fileca/load.go	58.62% <100.00%> (-10.35%)	⬇️
pkg/ca/kmsca/kmsca.go	53.57% <100.00%> (ø)
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[dlorenc]

We can leverage this instead of KMS if we need to support a higher QPS, and Tink keysets use strong secure defaults. Keysets can be encrypted with AESGCM, do not rely on a KDF, cannot be brute-forced, and access to the key can be audited through cloud audit logs.

I'm not sure I follow this part - are we saying that we'd be storing an encrypted private key locally, then decrypting that private key to use for signing? The encryption/decryption would happen in KMS, but then the signing would happen with an in-memory key?

[haydentherapper]

Yep! It's similar to the file CA implementation, but instead of a password-protected signing key, it's a KMS-encrypted signing key. All signing would happen with an in-memory key. There's only one call to KMS, just to decrypt the key (unlike the current implementation which signs all certs with a KMS key)

Here's the end to end flow:

• One-time, create a Tink keyset to be used for signing, and encrypt it with a KMS key. Also create a CA certificate using the Tink keyset's public key
• Configure the CA with the encrypted Tink keyset, the CA chain, and the KMS key
• On startup, the CA will use the KMS key to decrypt the Tink keyset. Once decrypted, it can be used to sign certificates

[dlorenc]

Ah ok, thanks. Makes sense. The part that threw me off was around auditing access to the key - I guess it's technically correct that we can audit decryptions of the key, but if it were to leak we don't have any magic there.

[haydentherapper]

Yea, if the key leaked from memory somehow, there's nothing that can be done, but at rest, if the encrypted key is compromised, it should be infeasible to decrypt it without the KMS key/service account credentials.

[haydentherapper]

Tested with:

./tinkey create-keyset --key-template ECDSA_P384 --out enc-keyset.cfg --master-key-uri gcp-kms://projects/project/locations/us-west1/keyRings/test-ring-local/cryptoKeys/test-key

(reverse-i-search)`go run ': go run cmd/fetch_ca_cert/fetch_ca_cert.go   --tink-kms-resource="gcp-kms://projects/project/locations/us-west1/keyRings/test-ring-local/cryptoKeys/test-key" --tink-keyset-path="../tinkey/enc-keyset.cfg" --gcp-ca-parent="projects/project/locations/us-west1/caPools/fulcio-test" --output="chain.crt.pem"

edit docker-compose to add necessary flags

test with curl

[haydentherapper]

@bobcallaway @dlorenc Bumping PR, thanks! Just a note, the only untested function is tinkca.GetPrimaryKey since it fetches a key from a remote KMS and the library doesn't support fakes.

[bobcallaway]

lgtm, thanks!