KeyVault.deleteKey()

New in version 4.2.

beta

Client-Side Field Level Encryption is available as a beta. The contentsof this page may change during the beta period.

• KeyVault.deleteKey(UUID)
• Deletes a data key with the specified UUID from the key vaultassociated to the database connection.

deleteKey() has the following syntax:

keyVault = db.getMongo().getKeyVault()
 
keyVault.deleteKey(UUID("<UUID String>"))

The UUID is a BSONbinary data object with subtype 4.

Behavior

Requires Configuring Client-Side Field Level Encryption on Database Connection

The mongo client-side field level encrytion methodsrequire a database connection with client-side field level encryptionenabled. If the current database connection was not initiated withclient-side field level encryption enabled, either:

• Use the Mongo() constructor from the mongoshell to establish a connection with the required client-side fieldlevel encryption options. The Mongo() method supports bothAmazon Web Services and Local Key Management Service (KMS) providersfor Customer Master Key (CMK) management.

or

• Use the mongo shell command line options to establish aconnection with the required options. The command line options onlysupport the AWS KMS provider for CMK management.

Example

The following example is intended for rapid evaluation ofclient-side field level encryption. For more complete examplesappropriate for development and production environments, seeRemove a data encryption key.

Configuring client-side field level encryption for a locallymanaged key requires specifying a base64-encoded 96-bytestring with no line breaks. The following operation generatesa key that meets the stated requirements and loads it intothe mongo shell:

TEST_LOCAL_KEY=$(echo "$(head -c 96 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -d '\n')")
 
mongo --nodb --shell --eval "var TEST_LOCAL_KEY='$TEST_LOCAL_KEY'"

Create the client-side field level encryption object using thegenerated local key string:

var ClientSideFieldLevelEncryptionOptions = {
  "keyVaultNamespace" : "encryption.__dataKeys",
  "kmsProviders" : {
    "local" : {
      "key" : BinData(0, TEST_LOCAL_KEY)
    }
  }
}

Use the Mongo() constructor to create a database connectionwith the client-side field level encryption options. Replace themongodb://myMongo.example.net URI with the connection stringURI of the target cluster.

encryptedClient = Mongo(
  "mongodb://myMongo.example.net:27017/?replSetName=myMongo",
  ClientSideFieldLevelEncryptionOptions
)

Retrieve the KeyVault object anduse the KeyVault.deleteKey() method todelete the data key with matching UUID:

keyVault = encryptedClient.getKeyVault()
keyVault.deleteKey(UUID("b4b41b33-5c97-412e-a02b-743498346079"))

If successful, deleteKey() returns output similar tothe following:

{ "acknowledged" : true, "deletedCount" : 1 }

See also

Remove a data encryption key