> ## Documentation Index
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# TrueNAS

> Overview of TrueNAS and its role in the KMIP integration context.

From the TrueNAS Documentation Hub: TrueNAS is the world’s most popular Open Source storage operating system and is the most efficient solution for managing and sharing data over a network. It is the simplest way to create a safe, secure, centralized, and easily accessible place for your data. TrueNAS Open Storage provides unified ZFS-based storage for file, block, object, and application data.

## What is KMIP?

The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) is an extensible communication protocol that defines message formats for the manipulation of cryptographic keys on a key management server. This facilitates data encryption by simplifying encryption key management. You can create keys on a server and then retrieve them, possibly wrapped by other keys. KMIP supports both symmetric and asymmetric keys and the ability to sign certificates. KMIP also enables clients to ask a server to encrypt or decrypt data without needing direct access to the key.

## Integration purpose

KMIP on TrueNAS Enterprise integrates the system within an existing centralized key management infrastructure and uses a single trusted source (such as the KMES Series 3) for creating, using, and destroying Self Encrypting Drive (SED) passwords and Z File System (ZFS) encryption keys.


## Related topics

- [TrueNAS Enterprise](/Integrations/CryptoHub/Data_storage/TrueNAS_Enterprise/TrueNAS_Enterprise.md)
- [Configure KMIP in TrueNAS](/Integrations/CryptoHub/Data_storage/TrueNAS_Enterprise/Configure_KMIP_in_TrueNAS.md)
- [Import TLS certificates into TrueNAS](/Integrations/CryptoHub/Data_storage/TrueNAS_Enterprise/Import_TLS_certificates_into_TrueNAS.md)
- [Create an encrypted dataset in TrueNAS](/Integrations/CryptoHub/Data_storage/TrueNAS_Enterprise/Create_an_encrypted_dataset_in_TrueNAS.md)
- [Import TLS certificates into TrueNAS and configure KMIP](/Integrations/KMES_Series_3/Data_storage/TrueNAS/Import_TLS_certificates_into_TrueNAS_and_configure_KMIP.md)