Major Description
The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) is a communication protocol between key management systems and encryption systems. The KMIP standard effort is governed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
A lot of Key management server implementations provided support of KMIP protocol, thus opening the door for Hadoop KMS to use these key management backends by talking with them using KMIP protocol.
Hadoop KMS currently designed in a pluggable manner to allow other key storage backend. Conceptually, to support KMIP compatible backend, we need to provide a KMIP implementation of KeyProvider interface. And this implementation talking to a KMIP compatible backend through a KMIP client.