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ImportKeyMaterial

Imports key material into an existing symmetric AWS KMS customer master key (CMK) that was created without key material. After you successfully import key material into a CMK, you can reimport the same key material into that CMK, but you cannot import different key material.

You cannot perform this operation on an asymmetric CMK or on any CMK in a different AWS account. For more information about creating CMKs with no key material and then importing key material, see Importing Key Material in the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide.

Before using this operation, call GetParametersForImport. Its response includes a public key and an import token. Use the public key to encrypt the key material. Then, submit the import token from the same GetParametersForImport response.

When calling this operation, you must specify the following values:

The key ID or key ARN of a CMK with no key material. Its Origin must be EXTERNAL.

To create a CMK with no key material, call CreateKey and set the value of its Origin parameter to EXTERNAL. To get the Origin of a CMK, call DescribeKey.)
The encrypted key material. To get the public key to encrypt the key material, call GetParametersForImport.
The import token that GetParametersForImport returned. You must use a public key and token from the same GetParametersForImport response.
Whether the key material expires and if so, when. If you set an expiration date, AWS KMS deletes the key material from the CMK on the specified date, and the CMK becomes unusable. To use the CMK again, you must reimport the same key material. The only way to change an expiration date is by reimporting the same key material and specifying a new expiration date.

When this operation is successful, the key state of the CMK changes from PendingImport to Enabled, and you can use the CMK.

If this operation fails, use the exception to help determine the problem. If the error is related to the key material, the import token, or wrapping key, use GetParametersForImport to get a new public key and import token for the CMK and repeat the import procedure. For help, see How To Import Key Material in the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide.

The CMK that you use for this operation must be in a compatible key state. For details, see How Key State Affects Use of a Customer Master Key in the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide.

Cross-account use: No. You cannot perform this operation on a CMK in a different AWS account.

Required permissions: kms:ImportKeyMaterial (key policy)

Related operations:

Request Syntax


{
   "EncryptedKeyMaterial": blob,
   "ExpirationModel": "string",
   "ImportToken": blob,
   "KeyId": "string",
   "ValidTo": number
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Note

In the following list, the required parameters are described first.

EncryptedKeyMaterial

The encrypted key material to import. The key material must be encrypted with the public wrapping key that GetParametersForImport returned, using the wrapping algorithm that you specified in the same GetParametersForImport request.

Type: Base64-encoded binary data object

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 6144.

Required: Yes

ImportToken

The import token that you received in the response to a previous GetParametersForImport request. It must be from the same response that contained the public key that you used to encrypt the key material.

Type: Base64-encoded binary data object

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 6144.

Required: Yes

KeyId

The identifier of the symmetric CMK that receives the imported key material. The CMK's Origin must be EXTERNAL. This must be the same CMK specified in the KeyID parameter of the corresponding GetParametersForImport request.

Specify the key ID or the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the CMK.

For example:

Key ID: 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab
Key ARN: arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab

To get the key ID and key ARN for a CMK, use ListKeys or DescribeKey.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: Yes

ExpirationModel

Specifies whether the key material expires. The default is KEY_MATERIAL_EXPIRES, in which case you must include the ValidTo parameter. When this parameter is set to KEY_MATERIAL_DOES_NOT_EXPIRE, you must omit the ValidTo parameter.

Type: String

Valid Values: KEY_MATERIAL_EXPIRES | KEY_MATERIAL_DOES_NOT_EXPIRE

Required: No

ValidTo

The time at which the imported key material expires. When the key material expires, AWS KMS deletes the key material and the CMK becomes unusable. You must omit this parameter when the ExpirationModel parameter is set to KEY_MATERIAL_DOES_NOT_EXPIRE. Otherwise it is required.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

DependencyTimeoutException

The system timed out while trying to fulfill the request. The request can be retried.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ExpiredImportTokenException

The request was rejected because the specified import token is expired. Use GetParametersForImport to get a new import token and public key, use the new public key to encrypt the key material, and then try the request again.

HTTP Status Code: 400

IncorrectKeyMaterialException

The request was rejected because the key material in the request is, expired, invalid, or is not the same key material that was previously imported into this customer master key (CMK).

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidArnException

The request was rejected because a specified ARN, or an ARN in a key policy, is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidCiphertextException

From the Decrypt or ReEncrypt operation, the request was rejected because the specified ciphertext, or additional authenticated data incorporated into the ciphertext, such as the encryption context, is corrupted, missing, or otherwise invalid.

From the ImportKeyMaterial operation, the request was rejected because AWS KMS could not decrypt the encrypted (wrapped) key material.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidImportTokenException

The request was rejected because the provided import token is invalid or is associated with a different customer master key (CMK).

HTTP Status Code: 400

KMSInternalException

The request was rejected because an internal exception occurred. The request can be retried.

HTTP Status Code: 500

KMSInvalidStateException

The request was rejected because the state of the specified resource is not valid for this request.

For more information about how key state affects the use of a CMK, see How Key State Affects Use of a Customer Master Key in the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide .

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotFoundException

The request was rejected because the specified entity or resource could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedOperationException

The request was rejected because a specified parameter is not supported or a specified resource is not valid for this operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example Request

The following example is formatted for legibility.


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: kms.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
Content-Length: 2835
X-Amz-Target: TrentService.ImportKeyMaterial
X-Amz-Date: 20161201T212609Z
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256\
 Credential=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE/20161201/us-east-2/kms/aws4_request,\
 SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target,\
 Signature=dda4e269d4fd93decf1401aeb651e49c206c412c609141f6c743f146e1afb4e3

{
  "ExpirationModel": "KEY_MATERIAL_DOES_NOT_EXPIRE",
  "KeyId": "1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab",
  "ImportToken": "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",
  "EncryptedKeyMaterial": "CubeyZ4cm/xMEA0UG5jP1iBzh/0E+uUg407JDcXhIC+iuMm+wPgITaEby+Y3nM/e6gjUls5vy9TdBRFv4+JtksvB5hW4Znb2lUQhTUv+SSAZpaI14kAgTq/jC2GTLkaC6Vf5zJx2xaLrOKGV2Xu4YgONIGslubHNffTC3aL/YBJ/FXTXaVu7rS2phOFCrZ+ATittS03w4DiCVoNwo2v0QE0+dVoUNjXNQC1veWxhPlC7FezfK7AIsBSSXotJfANxRkybg8KcmkSoYdzr3N0L0v7oMorgbTgaTvdrLXu/PzphK6RWJGJig4tk+lxUT8hV7xiLkFskGjIHFmp6Xbon8w=="
}

Example Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Server
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:26:10 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 2
Connection: keep-alive
x-amzn-RequestId: c72fb6ff-b80c-11e6-ae07-61b14fe11739

{}