Updated on 2026-08-25 GMT+08:00

Decrypting a Key Capsule

Function

This API is used to decrypt a key capsule.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

    Action

    Access Level

    Resource Type (*: required)

    Condition Key

    Alias

    Dependencies

    kms:cmk:decryptDatakeyCapsule

    Write

    KeyId *

    -

    -

    -

URI

POST /v1.0/{project_id}/kms/datakey-capsule/decrypt

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Definition

Project ID. For details, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value returned by the IAM API is used, which contains 32 characters.

Default Value

N/A

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition

User token. It can be obtained by calling the IAM API. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

Constraints

N/A

Range

Obtain the value by calling the IAM API for obtaining the user token.

Default Value

N/A

Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

key_id

Yes

String

Definition

Key ID

Constraints

The value is in UUID format and must match the regular expression ^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$.

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

public_key

No

String

Definition

Public key information, which is encrypted using the RSAES_OAEP_SHA_256 algorithm. If public_key is specified, KMS uses the public key to encrypt the plaintext DEK and returns the encrypted DEK.

Constraints

Only RSA public keys are supported.

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

datakey_capsule

Yes

String

Definition

Key capsule

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

attestation_document

Yes

attestation_document object

Definition

Attestation document of the access point

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Table 4 attestation_document

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

ecs_signature

No

String

Definition

ECS attestation document

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

custom_signature

No

String

Definition

Signature information of a general access point

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

custom_public_key

No

String

Definition

Public key information of a general access point

Constraints

The value is a Base64 string in the X509 public key format.

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

expire_time

No

String

Definition

Expiration time of the general signature information

Constraints

The time is in ISO 8601 format: yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SSZ.

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

service_token

No

String

Definition

CCE access credential

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

key_id

String

Definition

Key ID

Range

N/A

instance_id

String

Definition

ID of the instance where the decryption capsule is located

Range

The value is the ECS ID, CCE cluster ID, or the value of access_point_id in common scenarios.

datakey

String

Definition

Either datakey or datakey_cipher is returned. If public_key is not specified, datakey is returned.

Range

N/A

datakey_cipher

String

Definition

Either datakey or datakey_cipher is returned. If public_key is specified, after datakey is encrypted using public_key, datakey_cipher is returned.

Range

N/A

Example Requests

None

Example Responses

None

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Request succeeded.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.