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+# Proposal: API to support updating the encrypted data with a new secret key
+
+Author: `reasonerjt`
+
+## Abstract
+
+This proposal aims to provide an API to support updating the encrypted data with a new secret key. It will decrypt the persisted data 
+with the old key and use the new key to encrypt the data again. This API will be used to support rotating the secret key in Harbor.
+
+## Background
+
+Harbor needs to persist sensitive data in datastore like database, including the credentials for connecting to external services, like LDAP
+and other registries. These sensitive data are encrypted using symmetric methods before persisted to the database.  When Harbor needs to read
+the data, it will decrypt the data using the same secret key, which is mounted to the "harbor-core" container or pod.  
+Because which key was used to encrypt certain data is not tracked, there's problem when the secret key has to be changed.  When a new key is
+configured in Harbor, the data encrypted with the old key will not be able to be decrypted.
+
+## Proposal
+
+I propose to provide a simple API to help Harbor's system admin update the encrypted data with a new secret key.  The Admin will provide the
+old and new secret keys as parameters when calling the API, and Harbor will decrypt the data with the old key and encrypt the data with the new key, 
+then persist the data back to the database.  This API will be used to support rotating the secret key in Harbor.
+
+A typical workflow to rotate the secret key will be like this:
+    Generate the new secret key  -->  Call the API to update the encrypted data with the new key  -->  Update the secret key and restart `harbor-core`
+
+## Non Goal
+
+- This proposal does not cover the end-to-end flow for rotating the secret key in Harbor.  User may use this API in conjunction with 
+other tools.
+- This proposal will not cover the user case to recover or reset the secret key in case of losing the key. 
+- Although it is debatable whether encrypting the data is necessary, we will not refine the encryption flow in this proposal.
+- When the encrypted data is updated some on-going functionality maybe broken.  It is the responsibility of the system admin to manage the impact, for example,
+call this API during the maintenance window.
+
+## Design
+
+### The encrypted data in Harbor
+
+As for v2.12.0 of Harbor, the encrypted data in Harbor includes:
+
+| Table Name | Column Name   | Description                                         | Comment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+|------------|---------------|-----------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| properties | v             | Some sensitive properties like LDAP search password | We can distinguish the encrypted data by checking the pattern of the string from the DB, or check the "itemType", of the metadata: [link](https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/blob/28896b1bd6916d59e2445226753c73365d9ba062/src/lib/config/metadata/metadatalist.go#L93) |
+| oidc_user  | secret        | The CLI secret for user authenticated via OIDC      |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| oidc_user  | token         | The token data of a user                            | It's a serialized JSON containing the ID token and refresh Token                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| registry   | access_secret | The access secret of a registry endpoint            |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
+
+This API MUST handle all the encrypted data in Harbor.  Therefore, whenever there's a change in the scope of encrypted data, this API should be updated accordingly.
+
+### The API
+
+The API to rotate the secret key will look like
+```
+POST /api/v2.0/system/rotatesecretkey
+```
+Request body will be JSON Object containing the current and new secret key, and an optional attribute `skip_oidc_secret`:
+```json
+{
+  "current_secret_key": "current_secret",
+  "new_secret_key": "new_secret",
+  "skip_oidc_secret": false
+}
+```
+This API will be available to system admin only, if the user is not a system admin, the API will return `403`.
+
+When it's called Harbor will decrypt the encrypted data with the current secret key and encrypt the data with the new secret 
+key, then persist the data back to the database.  Because the secret key is set via environment variable, so after the data are 
+updated and persisted the secret key is not updated, if we continue use this key to encrypt data it will cause inconsistency and
+will be hard to fix.  Therefore, Harbor will enter "read-only" mode after the data are updated, and the system admin should update
+the secret key and unset the "read-only" mode.  In addition, to avoid inconsistency all these actions will be wrapped into one 
+transaction, if any step fails the API return will return status code `500` and the transaction will be rolled back.
+
+When the attribute `skip_oidc_secret` is set to `true`, the API will skip updating the OIDC secret.  This is added to avoid 
+the corner case where there are too many records in the `oidc_user` table and the update will take too long.  The system admin
+should call the API with `skip_oidc_secret` set to `false` first, and set it to `true` only when the API failed due to the reason 
+mentioned.  If the API is called with `skip_oidc_secret` set to `true`, the OIDC secrets will not be usable after the secret key is 
+updated, and the user will need to manually update the OIDC secret via Harbor's UI.
+
+### Implementation
+
+The implementation of this API is relatively straight forward, the controller to handle the actual logic will call db layer directly 
+to update the data.  We should make sure there're detailed log messages to track the progress of update of each type of data.
+