Applies to: 
Kyvos Enterprise Kyvos Cloud (SaaS on AWS) Kyvos AWS Marketplace
Kyvos Azure Marketplace Kyvos GCP Marketplace Kyvos Single Node Installation (Kyvos SNI)
Note
From Kyvos 2024.9 onwards, post deployment, you can decrypt secret information by selecting the None option, which keeps the values in plain text.
From Kyvos 2023.3 onwards, you can see the last operation details, including progress status and start time. To view more comprehensive details, simply click the View Details link, which will take you to the Operations page where you can view the operation information in detail.
The Manage Credentials feature in Kyvos Manager enables you to:
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Changing Repository Password
This feature allows you to change the Kyvos repository password provided at the time of cluster deployment. The BI Server uses this password to connect to the Kyvos repository.
To change the password, perform the following steps.
On the Kyvos Manager navigation pane, click Manage Credentials.
Click Change repository password.
On the displayed Change Repository Password dialog box, provide the Current Password, New Password, and Confirm New Password.
Provide Kyvos Manager Password to continue.
Click the Save button to save your change.
Note
You MUST restart the BI Server to bring the new password into effect.
Changing Encryption Algorithm
You can change password encryption to configure a cryptographic algorithm at the application level. All sensitive information stored in the Azure Key Vault or AWS Secrets Manager is also encrypted using the cryptographic algorithm.
To change the password encryption, perform the following steps.
On the Kyvos Manager navigation pane, click Manage Credentials.
Click Change repository password.
On the displayed Encryption Algorithm dialog box, select the encryption from any of the following options.
Note
Kyvos supports both 128 and 256 versions for all the supported algorithms.
DEFAULT: MD5 encryption for Kyvos user login password and DES for saved passwords for other services.
AES_CBC: In this mode, each ciphertext block is dependent on all plain text blocks processed up to that point. Kyvos supports both 128 and 256 variants for this.
AES_CFB: This mode can be used as a stream cipher. First, it encrypts the IV, and then it will xor with the plain text block to get ciphertext. Then CFB encrypts the encryption result to xor the plain text. It needs an IV. Kyvos supports both 128 and 256 variants for this.
AES_GCM: This mode operates by XOR'ing (eXclusive OR) each block with the previous block and cannot be written in parallel. Kyvos supports both 128 and 256 variants for this.
None: Use this option to keep the secret values in plain text. In this case, no encryption will be applied to the secrets being saved in the Key Vault/Secrets Manager.
Provide Kyvos Manager Password to continue.
Click the Save button to save your changes.
Note
You MUST restart the BI Server to bring the new password encryption algorithm into effect.
Changing Password Storage
Kyvos Manager allows you to migrate your repository passwords (like SMTP, LDAP, Repository, OIDC, etc.) from the configuration file to a secrets manager like AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or GCP Secrets Manager.
Note
Once you migrate your passwords to a secret store, you cannot switch back to the configuration file.