Encryption

TL;DR I’m now using PGP for archive file encryption. The trigger This summer, I read Permanent Record from Edward Snowden, “Ed” for those in the know. I was pretty impressed at how a government organization with billions of dollars budget can organize a mass surveillance program at a worldwide scale in only a few decades. “Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.” ...

Following the announced new opt-in option regarding the default encryption of EBS Volumes a few days ago, I’ve made a small python script to enable this feature on all AWS regions within an AWS Account. Quick and Dirty Simple. This is an example, use it at your own risk, and test it before applying to production, as usual :) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 import boto3 AWS_REGION = 'eu-west-1' session = boto3.Session(region_name=AWS_REGION) ec2 = session.client('ec2') def main(event, context): ec2_regions = [region['RegionName'] for region in ec2.describe_regions()['Regions']] # For all AWS Regions for region in ec2_regions: conn = boto3.client('ec2', region_name=region) print ("Checking AWS Region: " + region) status = conn.get_ebs_encryption_by_default() print ("===="*10) result = status["EbsEncryptionByDefault"] if result == True: print ("Activated, nothing to do") else: print("Not activated, activation in progress") conn.enable_ebs_encryption_by_default() if __name__ == '__main__': main(0,0) That’s all folks! ...