coreason-vault (The Safe)

The centralized guardian of secrets for the CoReason platform.

coreason-vault manages secrets at rest and in memory, replacing legacy local encryption and unsafe environment variable practices with a robust, centralized Vault-based architecture.

Mission

• Secure Retrieval: Fetch API keys and database credentials securely from HashiCorp Vault.
• Key Rotation & Leases: Handle dynamic secrets with lease management.
• Encryption as a Service (EaaS): Delegate encryption of sensitive user data to Vault's Transit Engine, ensuring the application never handles encryption keys.

Features

• "The Safe" Philosophy: Application code never sees long-lived credentials or performs its own encryption.
• Transit Engine Integration: Replaces local crypto.py by offloading encryption/decryption to Vault.
• Just-in-Time Secrets: Fetches secrets on demand with caching (TTL ~60s) to prevent API hammering.
• Dynamic Secrets: Supports retrieval of dynamic secrets with lease information.
• Automated Authentication: Seamlessly handles AppRole (local/VM) and Kubernetes (Prod) authentication with auto-renewal.
• Resilience: Built-in retries and circuit breaking for Vault connection issues.

Installation

pip install coreason-vault

Usage

from coreason_vault import VaultManager, VaultConfig
from coreason_vault.exceptions import SecretNotFoundError

# 1. Initialize
# Automatically reads configuration from environment variables:
# VAULT_ADDR, VAULT_ROLE_ID/SECRET_ID (or K8S Auth), etc.
config = VaultConfig()
vault = VaultManager(config)

# 2. Fetch Secret (KV Version 2)
try:
    # Fetches from 'secret/data/coreason/services/openai' (mount point defaults to 'secret')
    creds = vault.secrets.get("coreason/services/openai")
    print(f"Using API Key: {creds['api_key'][:4]}...")
except SecretNotFoundError:
    print("Fatal: OpenAI credentials missing")

# 3. Encrypt Sensitive Data (Transit Engine)
# The app never sees the encryption key. Vault handles the cryptography.
ciphertext = vault.cipher.encrypt(
    plaintext="Sensitive Patient Data",
    key_name="patient-data-key",
    context="user_123"  # Optional: Key derivation context for extra security
)
print(f"Stored in DB: {ciphertext}")
# Output example: vault:v1:QmF...

# 4. Decrypt Data
original_plaintext = vault.cipher.decrypt(
    ciphertext=ciphertext,
    key_name="patient-data-key",
    context="user_123"
)
print(f"Decrypted: {original_plaintext}")

Configuration

The library uses pydantic-settings to load configuration from environment variables.

License

This software is licensed under the Prosperity Public License 3.0. Commercial use beyond a 30-day trial requires a separate license. See LICENSE for details.