What level of AES Encryption does Salt use for the AES key

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)
• VCF Automation

Issue/Introduction

Once the Salt minion is authenticated to the Salt master, an AES key is used for encrypting communications between the master and minion. See https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/user-guide/en/latest/topics/security.html for more details on this subject. 

Environment

SaltProject - all versions

Tanzu Salt - all versions

Aria Config - all versions

VCF - all versions

Resolution

256-bit level AES encryption is used between the master and minion once the minion is authenticated with the Salt master.