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Validate External Key

POST/v1/organizations/external_keys/{external_key_id}/validate

Validate an external key config against the customer's KMS.

Anthropic performs an encrypt/decrypt roundtrip against the configured KMS key and waits up to 30 seconds for the result. The response status is success if the roundtrip succeeded, or failure with an error message if it failed or timed out.

Path parameters
external_key_id: string

ID of the External Key.

maxLength2048
Returns
type: "external_key_validation"
defaultexternal_key_validation
error: string or null

Error message when status is failure. Null otherwise.

status: "failure" or "success"

success — encrypt/decrypt roundtrip succeeded. failure — the roundtrip failed or timed out; see error.

One of the following:
"failure"
"success"
Validate External Key
curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/organizations/external_keys/$EXTERNAL_KEY_ID/validate \
    -X POST \
    -H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
    -H "X-Api-Key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
Returns Examples
Response 200
{
  "error": "error",
  "status": "failure",
  "type": "external_key_validation"
}