Using REST APIs to manage and serve keys, certificates, and other cryptographic objects
IBM® Security Guardium® Key Lifecycle Manager provides REST APIs for clients to communicate with the IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager server for managing and serving cryptographic objects. Clients (For example, cloud applications devices) that support REST APIs and that need to use keys and other cryptographic objects from IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager can use this method to communicate with the IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager server.
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In a Multi-Master setup, ensure that the same users and user groups are configured on all the
master servers.
Best practice: Integrate with a centralized user
repository such as LDAP for user authentication and management.