Ubiq Security Go Library

The Ubiq Security Go library provides convenient interaction with the
Ubiq Security Platform API for applications written Go. It includes a
pre-defined set of functions and classes that will provide simple interfaces
to encrypt and decrypt data

Documentation

See the Go API docs and
below for examples.

Individual interfaces are documented in greater detail in the source
code which can be viewed using the go doc tool.

Building from source:

Import the Ubiq Go library in your source files:

import "gitlab.com/ubiqsecurity/ubiq-go"

Available symbols are in the ubiq namespace/package.

Requirements

The library has been tested with Go 1.10; however, it may work with
older versions.

Usage

Credentials

The library needs to be configured with your account credentials which are
available in your Ubiq Dashboard credentials. The
credentials can be set using environment variables, loaded from an explicitly
specified file, or read from the default location (~/.ubiq/credentials).

Read credentials from a specific file and use a specific profile

credentials, err := ubiq.NewCredentials(
        "/path/to/credentials", "profile-name")

Read credentials from ~/.ubiq/credentials and use the default profile

credentials, err := ubiq.NewCredentials()

Use the following environment variables to set the credential values

UBIQ_ACCESS_KEY_ID
UBIQ_SECRET_SIGNING_KEY
UBIQ_SECRET_CRYPTO_ACCESS_KEY

credentials, err := ubiq.NewCredentials()

Explicitly set the credentials

credentials, err := ubiq.NewCredentials(
        "..." /* access key id */,
        "..." /* secret signing key */,
        "..." /* secret crypto access key */,
        "..." /* Ubiq API server, may omit this parameter */)

Simple encryption and decryption

Encrypt a single block of data

Pass credentials and data into the encryption function. The encrypted data
will be returned.

var pt []byte = ...
credentials, err := ubiq.NewCredentials()
ct, err := ubiq.Encrypt(credentials, pt)

Decrypt a single block of data

Pass credentials and encrypted data into the decryption function. The
plaintext data will be returned.

var ct []byte = ...
credentials, err := ubiq.NewCredentials()
pt, err := ubiq.Decrypt(credentials, ct)

Piecewise encryption and decryption

Encrypt a large data element where data is loaded in chunks

• Create an encryption object using the credentials.
• Call the encryption instance begin method
• Call the encryption instance update method repeatedly until all the data is processed
• Call the encryption instance end method

var pt []byte = make([]byte, 128*1024)

credentials, _ := ubiq.NewCredentials()
encryption, _ := ubiq.NewEncryption(credentials, 1)
defer encryption.Close()

ct, _ := encryption.Begin()
for {
        n, e := infile.Read(pt)
        if e == io.EOF {
                break
        }
        t, _ := encryption.Update(pt[:n])
        ct = append(ct, t...)
}
t, _ := encryption.End()
ct = append(ct, t...)

Decrypt a large data element where data is loaded in chunks

• Create an instance of the decryption object using the credentials.
• Call the decryption instance begin method
• Call the decryption instance update method repeatedly until all the data is processed
• Call the decryption instance end method

var ct []byte = make([]byte, 128*1024)

credentials, _ := ubiq.NewCredentials()
decryption, _ := ubiq.NewDecryption(credentials)
defer decryption.Close()

pt, _ := decryption.Begin()
for {
        n, e := infile.Read(ct)
        if e == io.EOF {
                break
        }
        t, _ := decryption.Update(ct[:n])
        pt = append(pt, t...)
}
t, _ := decryption.End()
pt = append(pt, t...)

./ubiq_sample -i /tmp/readme.enc -o /tmp/README.out -d -p -c ./credentials