Creating a Shared Secret

Constraints

• A user can create a maximum of 200 secrets.
• By default, the default key csms/default created by CSMS is used as the encryption key of the current secret. You can also create a user-defined symmetric key and use a user-defined encryption key on the KMS console.

Creating a Secret

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
3. Click on the left. Choose Security & Compliance > Data Encryption Workshop.
4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Cloud Secret Management Service > Secrets. The Cloud Secret Management Service page is displayed.
5. Click Create Secret. Configure parameters in the Create Secret dialog box, as shown in Figure 1. For details, see Table 1.
   Figure 1 Creating a secret
   

   Table 1 Secret parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Type	Secret type. The default value is Shared secret.
   Secret Name	Secret name NOTE: Only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are supported.
   Enterprise Project	This parameter is provided for enterprise users. If you are an enterprise user and have created an enterprise project, select the required enterprise project from the drop-down list. The default project is default. NOTE: If you have not enabled enterprise management, this parameter will not be displayed.
   Secret Value	Secret key/value pair and the plaintext secret to be encrypted
   KMS Encryption Key	Select the default key csms/default or a custom key created on KMS. NOTE: CSMS encrypts private keys using the encryption key provided by KMS. When you use the KMS encryption function of the key pair, KMS creates a default key csms/default for you to use. For details about the custom keys created on KMS, see Creating a Key. After a grant is created, you can switch to the manual input mode, and enter the key ID to use the granted key for encryption. For details, see .
   Advanced settings	Associated Event Select an associated event for the secret. You can check information such as secret rotation and version expiration. Description Description of a secret Tag You can add tags to a secret as you need. NOTE: You can add at most 20 tags to a secret.

6. Click Next and set the rotation period.
7. Click Next and confirm the creation information.
8. Click OK. In the secret list, you can view the created secrets. The default status of a secret is Enabled.