jsq/doctrine-cache-encrypter

An encrypting decorator for instances of Doctrine\Common\Cache\Cache

0.4.0 2016-02-22 02:52 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.5
• ext-openssl: *
• doctrine/cache: ~1.0
• jsq/iron-php: ^0.1.1

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ~4.8|~5.0

Apache-2.0

• Jonathan Eskew

README

Having to encrypt your data at rest shouldn't keep you from using the open-source tools you know and love. If you have data that needs a higher degree of security than the rest of your cache, you can store and access it via an EncryptingDecorator.

Caveats

Encryption and decryption are both expensive operations, and frequent reads from an encrypted data store can quickly become a bottleneck in otherwise performant applications. Use encrypted caches sparingly (i.e., do not use an encrypting decorator around your Doctrine Annotations cache).

Usage

This package provides two cache decorators, one that encrypts data using a pass phrase and one that does so with public and private keys. The implementation using a pass phrase is the more performant of the two but requires that you securely deploy a plaintext password.

First, create your Doctrine-based cache as you normally would:

$cache = new \Doctrine\Common\Cache\RedisCache($redisClient);

Second, wrap your cache with an encrypting decorator:

$encryptedCache = new \Jsq\Cache\PasswordEncryption\Decorator(
    $cache,
    $password,
    $cipher // optional, defaults to 'aes-256-cbc'
);

Then use your $cache and $encryptedCache like you normally would:

$cache->save('normal_cache_data', 'Totally normal!');

$encryptedCache->save('api_keys', $keys);

Though your regular cache and encrypted cache share a storage layer and a keyspace, they will not be able to read each other's data. The $encryptedCache will return false if asked to read unencrypted data, and the regular $cache will return gibberish if asked to read encrypted data.

Encrypting your cache without sharing secrets

If you'd rather not rely on a shared password, the EnvelopeEncryption\Decorator can secure your sensitive cache entries using a public/private key pair.

$encryptedCache = new \Jsq\Cache\EnvelopeEncryption\Decorator(
    $cache,
    'file:///path/to/certificate.pem',
    'file:///path/to/private/key.pem',
    $passphrase_for_private_key_file, // optional, defaults to null
    $cipher // optional, defaults to 'aes-256-cbc'
);

The certificate can be a valid x509 certificate, a path to a PEM-encoded certificate file (the path must be prefaced with file://), or a PEM-encoded certificate string. The private key can be a path to a PEM-encoded private key file (the path must be prefaced with file://), or a PEM-encoded certificate string.