De-identify content through deterministic encryption

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Use the Data Loss Prevention API to de-identify sensitive data in a string using deterministic encryption, which is a reversible cryptographic method. The encryption is performed with a wrapped key.

Code sample

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for Cloud DLP, see Cloud DLP client libraries.

def deidentify_with_deterministic(
    project,
    input_str,
    info_types,
    surrogate_type=None,
    key_name=None,
    wrapped_key=None,
):
    """Deidentifies sensitive data in a string using deterministic encryption.
    Args:
        project: The Google Cloud project id to use as a parent resource.
        input_str: The string to deidentify (will be treated as text).
        surrogate_type: The name of the surrogate custom info type to use. Only
            necessary if you want to reverse the deidentification process. Can
            be essentially any arbitrary string, as long as it doesn't appear
            in your dataset otherwise.
        key_name: The name of the Cloud KMS key used to encrypt ('wrap') the
            AES-256 key. Example:
            key_name = 'projects/YOUR_GCLOUD_PROJECT/locations/YOUR_LOCATION/
            keyRings/YOUR_KEYRING_NAME/cryptoKeys/YOUR_KEY_NAME'
        wrapped_key: The encrypted ('wrapped') AES-256 key to use. This key
            should be encrypted using the Cloud KMS key specified by key_name.
    Returns:
        None; the response from the API is printed to the terminal.
    """
    import base64

    # Import the client library
    import google.cloud.dlp

    # Instantiate a client
    dlp = google.cloud.dlp_v2.DlpServiceClient()

    # Convert the project id into a full resource id.
    parent = f"projects/{project}"

    # The wrapped key is base64-encoded, but the library expects a binary
    # string, so decode it here.
    wrapped_key = base64.b64decode(wrapped_key)

    # Construct Deterministic encryption configuration dictionary
    crypto_replace_deterministic_config = {
        "crypto_key": {
            "kms_wrapped": {"wrapped_key": wrapped_key, "crypto_key_name": key_name}
        },
    }

    # Add surrogate type
    if surrogate_type:
        crypto_replace_deterministic_config["surrogate_info_type"] = {
            "name": surrogate_type
        }

    # Construct inspect configuration dictionary
    inspect_config = {"info_types": [{"name": info_type} for info_type in info_types]}

    # Construct deidentify configuration dictionary
    deidentify_config = {
        "info_type_transformations": {
            "transformations": [
                {
                    "primitive_transformation": {
                        "crypto_deterministic_config": crypto_replace_deterministic_config
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    }

    # Convert string to item
    item = {"value": input_str}

    # Call the API
    response = dlp.deidentify_content(
        request={
            "parent": parent,
            "deidentify_config": deidentify_config,
            "inspect_config": inspect_config,
            "item": item,
        }
    )

    # Print results
    print(response.item.value)

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