alberti v0.0.2

alberti

A secret management system written in Node.js and utilizing AWS KMS. This project will help applications securely store and access their secrets (DB passwords, authentication keys, credentials, etc.).

Current Status

Under development (10-19-2016).

Rings

This code is used as the basis to create/get/delete secrets. The access mechanisms will be known as 'rings'. Ring is both a play on the 'decoder ring' which cipher disks devolved into, as well as a synonym for disk like the inner/outer disk/ring of the original cipher disk.

Here is a list of planned/existing rings.

Leon Battista Alberti

An Italian architect and author named Leon Battista Alberti invented the cipher disk in 1470. It was used to encipher/decipher secrets.