Use KMS URIs without --kms flag #1560
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This command allows use use KMS URIs without using the `--kms` flag. Those commands using cryptoutils package will read a key from a KMS if the name is not a file and is one of the supported KMS types.
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Update cryptographic-protection.mdx examples to show the simplified syntax where KMS URIs can be used directly without the --kms flag. The step CLI now auto-detects KMS URIs by their scheme prefix (cloudkms:, awskms:, yubikey:, tpmkms:, pkcs11:), so the --kms flag is optional in many cases. Related: smallstep/cli#1560 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Update cryptographic-protection.mdx examples to show the simplified syntax where KMS URIs can be used directly without the --kms flag. The step CLI now auto-detects KMS URIs by their scheme prefix (cloudkms:, awskms:, yubikey:, tpmkms:, pkcs11:), so the --kms flag is optional in many cases. Related: smallstep/cli#1560 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This commit allows using KMS URIs without using the
--kmsflag. Those commands using cryptoutils package will read a key from a KMS if the name is not a file and is one of the supported KMS types.Examples:
step certificate create --csr --key yubikey:slot-id=9a yubikey.csrstep certificate create --profile root-ca --key 'yubikey:slot-id=82?pin-value=123456' "Smallstep Root CA" root_ca.crtstep ca renew yubikey.crt yubikey:slot-id=9astep ca rekey --private-key yubikey:slot-id=82 yubikey.crt yubikey:slot-id=9a