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id: alibabacloud-kms20160120
version: "3.2.0"
license: Apache License 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# alibabacloud-kms20160120 — Alibaba Cloud KeyManagementService (20160120) SDK Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 134.8K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is an official Alibaba Cloud SDK that wraps the KMS API (version 20160120) for Python applications. It provides a typed client interface to interact with Alibaba Cloud's key management service, handling authentication, request serialization, and response parsing through its three runtime dependencies (alibabacloud-gateway-pop, alibabacloud-tea-openapi, and darabonba-core).

The package is intended for developers building applications on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure that need to perform cryptographic operations—such as encrypting sensitive data, managing encryption keys, or integrating key rotation—without writing raw HTTP calls. It's part of Alibaba's broader Python SDK ecosystem and follows their standard patterns for cloud service clients.

Use it for:

- Encrypt and decrypt sensitive data (credentials, PII) using keys stored in Alibaba Cloud KMS
- Manage encryption key lifecycle (creation, rotation, disabling) programmatically from Python
- Integrate KMS operations into backend services running on Alibaba Cloud infrastructure
- Automate key-based security workflows in multi-tenant or compliance-heavy applications
- Centralize key management across multiple Alibaba Cloud services from a single Python application

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides a Python client library for Alibaba Cloud's Key Management Service (KMS) API, enabling encryption, decryption, and key management operations against Alibaba Cloud infrastructure.

Yes, if you are building on Alibaba Cloud and need KMS integration. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries a permissive license, and supports modern Python versions. No known vulnerabilities. Install only if you have Alibaba Cloud credentials and a genuine need for their KMS service; it is not a general-purpose cryptography library.

## Install

pip install alibabacloud-kms20160120
uv add alibabacloud-kms20160120
poetry add alibabacloud-kms20160120

## Installing alibabacloud-kms20160120

Before you install: Low friction installation via pip with three straightforward dependencies. Actively maintained with a release 9 days old and recent repository activity; marked Beta but supports modern Python versions 3.7 through 3.12.

License in practice: Apache License 2.0 (permissive) allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; suitable for most projects that can include attribution.

Quickstart:

pip install alibabacloud_kms20160120

from alibabacloud_kms20160120 import client
# Initialize with credentials and call KMS operations

Requires Python >= 3.7 and valid Alibaba Cloud credentials (access key ID and secret) to authenticate with the KMS service.

Verify before relying:

- Specific KMS operations supported (encrypt, decrypt, key generation, rotation, etc.) beyond the generic API wrapper
- Whether darabonba-core, alibabacloud-tea-openapi, and alibabacloud-gateway-pop are stable or Beta-status dependencies
- Example code or documentation link to validate ease of use for common KMS workflows

## Package facts

- License: Apache License 2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 134.8K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

alibaba cloud kms client, key management service sdk, alibaba kms encryption, cloud key management python, alibaba key encryption api, kms key operations, alibaba cloud cryptography, alibaba-cloud, key-management, cloud-sdk

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