# title: Validate External Key url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/beta/organization/external_keys/validate

# 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.

  maxLength: 2048

# Returns

• type: "external_key_validation"

  default: external_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.

  • "failure"

  • "success"

# Example

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"

# Response (200)

{
  "error": "error",
  "status": "failure",
  "type": "external_key_validation"
}