Method: cryptoKeys.create

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Query parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes
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Full name: projects.locations.keyRings.cryptoKeys.create

Create a new CryptoKey within a KeyRing.

CryptoKey.purpose and CryptoKey.version_template.algorithm are required.

HTTP request

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global europe-west3 europe-west8 europe-west9 me-central2 us-east1 us-east4 us-west2 us-west1 us-east7 us-central1 us-west3 us-central2 us-west4 us-west8 us-east5 us-south1

The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
parent	string Required. The name of the KeyRing associated with the CryptoKeys. Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource parent: cloudkms.cryptoKeys.create

Query parameters

Parameters
cryptoKeyId	string Required. It must be unique within a KeyRing and match the regular expression [a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,63}
skipInitialVersionCreation	boolean If set to true, the request will create a CryptoKey without any CryptoKeyVersions. You must manually call cryptoKeyVersions.create or cryptoKeyVersions.import before you can use this CryptoKey.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of CryptoKey.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of CryptoKey.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloudkms
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.