Questions tagged [secrets-management]
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How do programs store plain-text secrets securely? [duplicate]
The best example, would be the ~/.ssh folder, or the linux keychain.
Why is the ~/.ssh folder considered safe? When researching this, people said that the permissions of the folder would give enough ...
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How much does manually entering a key at process start help?
I have an application that encodes data when writing it to a database, and unencodes it when reading from the database. The encoding is done with a symmetric algorithm using a fixed secret key.
I'm ...
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What does it mean to store secret keys as an "environment variable" as opposed to hardcoded in the source code?
I see why it is obviously bad to store a secret key and client ID in the source code for a web application. However, how do you go about the alternative? Surely, that information has to be stored ...
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What's the tradeoff of storing a connection string vs the password as a secret?
This is for an app service + database I am pushing up to Azure. I am using Key Vault + Managed Identity for the secrets. I have several connection strings in the secrets to ApplicationInsights, etc.
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Mounting secrets with proper access control in kubernetes pods
I am trying to mount a secret in the pod securely. I have created the secrets with defaultMode: 0400 and runAsUser:1000. However when i am trying to access the secret in the container after doing exec ...
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How to store ClientID and ClientSecret in a K8 Env
I am trying integrate our service with SSO. I have generated the ClientID and ClientSecret.
Is it a good security practice to store the ClientID and ClientSecret as a configmap? If not, what are the ...
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What Criteria Should We Use to Determine What is and isn't a Secret?
Background:
We have product development teams, where each team has one or two QA engineers. They run tests from their local machines. Here is what they require:
Application credentials (a clientId ...
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Is it possible to authenticate a device with a server without the device knowing any sort of secret?
Pretty much what the title says. I have been playing around with discord webhooks lately and one problem I have discovered is that anyone with the webhook url/token can send messages. This means that ...
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Sending secret API Keys via email
I'm a customer of a big KYC provider and am using their API. The process to authenticate at the API requires a secret key that they are sending to me by email. If I want to revoke the key and get a ...
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In a web application, what would you consider the best way to store secret keys obtained via an SDK?
Currently I am working on an application that requires secret keys to encrypt and sign information generated by the client and transmited over the wire, these keys are granted per user.
Currently when ...
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Keeping customer secrets safe from sysadmins and devs in Kubernetes
I've spent a few weeks on GCP and GKE (Kubernetes) trying to figure out how to store customer secrets. The secrets are used by some application even when the user is not logged on so I want to ensure ...
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Which is more secure: Certificate or Secret inside our Azure Active Directory App, and why? [duplicate]
Inside our Azure Active Directory, we have 2 options to secure our calls to the Active Directory App:
Secret
Certificate
Which option is more secure and why? Inside our applications which will be ...
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Whats the difference between secret and password managers?
Are there fundamental underlying differences in how secrets and passwords should be managed?
I'm curious of the technical/cryptographic differences between secret managers and password managers are. ...
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Using AWS System Manager Parameter Store SecureString in config file in ec2
On an ec2 box I am running a service that reads vars from a config file. One var's value is stored in AWS System Manager as a SecureString. I want to use that value in the text file securely.
I can ...
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How can I share web-platform credentials across multiple desktop apps on Windows?
I have two desktop apps, each authenticate against our server using OIDC in order to call our web api. Currently the users need to login independently in each application.
I noticed when using ...
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Secret security in containerised environment
I've been having a discussion with a developer about storing sensitive information in environment variables. Specifically within a containerised environment such as Azures Container apps.
Background ...
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How to secure Kubernetes secrets on bare metal?
(This question is based on a comment I made on How Vault agent solves Secret Zero challenge in Kubernetes?)
We are planning to run some of our software in a Kubernetes cluster running on bare metal (i....
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Securely store application secrets in production without 3rd party KMS
Integrated Security
I have a ASP.NET web application with connection strings and other secrets to protect in production. Ideally I would like to use IntegratedSecurity to keep SQL credentials out of ...
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Securely loading private tokens on a local machine
When doing local development, I have to export a token needed for downloading dependencies from a private repository. For example:
export NPM_TOKEN=token_value
I want to make sure that this token is ...
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API Client Secrets are Being Logged in Plaintext (PowerShell Logs)
I'm currently implementing a PowerShell script to call the Sophos API (https://developer.sophos.com/intro).
Write-Output "`nEnter the Sophos API key / client secret."
$ClientSecret = Read-...
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Best practice for storing security tokens in source code [duplicate]
I have a PHP system and I need to store some tokens for operations like:
Database username and password
API token
Keys for encryption
It turns out that for a long time only I manage the source code, ...
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Best and safest way to store secret key used for PKA on server?
I interact with some API's that use PKA and I'm looking for the safest / best-practice way to store my secret key. The approaches I know are for example:
Create a 0500 access directory on my server
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Best Practice for retrieving secrets securely
So a company I work with currently is using a password management system that lets us retrieve the passwords for an application by providing a secure key to an API. Currently, the key is stored in ...
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Encrypting/Decrypting User Secrets with Password
I am designing an account system that will use salting/hashing to securely store and compare passwords. For now, I'm looking at using bcrypt for password hashing. Somewhere along the way I'll need a ...
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How Vault agent solves Secret Zero challenge in Kubernetes?
HashiCorp Vault Agent creates a sidecar that talks to Vault server and injects secrets as files into containers. The agent presumably uses Kubernetes Service Account in some way. But ultimately there ...
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What are the advantages of password "leasing"
One the Hashicorp Vault basic feature is secret leasing. They state:
Leasing and Renewal: All secrets in Vault have a lease associated with them. At the end of the lease, Vault will automatically ...
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What is a pre-warmed secret?
As described here: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-13.html#proposed-countermeasures-2
Note on pre-warmed secrets: An attacker can circumvent the
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How to do auth without user interaction in an enterprise environment?
We are building a Chrome Extension that will be force-installed on each employee's browser for the companies we work with.
We currently use OAuth but many employees are forgetting to sign up.
We are ...
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How can I pass secrets to a compromised container without the attacker being able to see them?
The most common method of passing secrets to a docker container is through ENVs.
The problem is:
Imagine that your docker container is hosting a HTTP server that can have a security exploit (like any ...
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How bad is it to store credentials in clear text on disk and in memory?
Yeah, it depends. A good answer would provide some reflections on this. I have two concrete scenarios in mind, in two concrete (and I believe common) contexts. Context 1. At home, you’re the only one ...
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How to securely share a secret/ password by between n individuals, so that majority consensus is required to retrieve the password / secret?
The following constraints apply
cannot use physical storage medium (such as Safe/ Vault)
the service used to store secret/ password should be highly available and accessible from anywhere in the ...
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Environment variables vs secrets managers
I am testing an in-development app locally.
Currently I use environment variables to store JWT secrets and database usernames and passwords.
I am interested in further securing this, and found out ...
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It's secure to store private keys in AWS Secret Manager?
I'm implementing a service that makes signs and sends transactions at the end of the day, this acts as a crypto exchange. The service creates for every new user a key pair (Private key with its public ...
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Secure memory buffer
We are designing a Python application and we need to "load" encryption secret key in "memory" at the application boot.
It can be also an admin pin code. Anyway, just some data.
Our ...
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Is Python's `secrets` module using the same code as the `random` module?
The secrets module is marketed as a safe alternative to random for things that are meant to be secret. But what's the actual difference? Looking at their code, in some cases these libraries actually ...
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Microsoft Word to secure stored data
I understand the purpose of Microsoft Word is not to store secret information.
However, I would rather spread my secret information between a Password Manager and a Word document, each of which has ...
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is this a good practice for storing private keys?
I'm working on a centralized exchange for cryptocurrencies. the approach that I'm taking for some reasons is to create an account(private key) per user inside platform. so these accounts should be ...
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How to secure the key in an offline package
I have a package to be shared to Bob which contains:
an encrypted data.zip
Application, which will have logic to decrypt the data
Bob will run Application and it will decrypt the data.zip.
Now for ...
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Source of RegEx examples of Secret Detection patterns in repositories?
Where can I find RegEx that can pattern match common secret strings?
I have a product that scans repos and commits and in case a developer tries to commit a secret (i.e. passwords, keys). It scans for ...
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How do very big companies manage their most important passwords / keys?
Third-party password managers such as 1password, etc. are useful for people, businesses, etc. to store passwords. But I bet Facebook, Google, Twitter and other super big tech companies don't use such ...
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Can a symmetric key be safely embedded anywhere in a .NET desktop client program
Is there a native way, that is, one not requiring the purchase of an expensive third-party obfuscator, that a .NET desktop client program, deployed to the users' Windows desktops from a LAN server ...
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Encrypt files transparently from applications
Many CLI applications store or need secrets in plaintext files.
I'm searching preferably for a tool, or a methodology, to encrypt those files without the application knowing.
What do I mean by that :
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Is it possible to store a user's third-party private API key securely?
Let's say there is a website called Service. Service has a read-only API. A user of Service has an API key that they can change at any time if they think their API key has been compromised. If I want ...
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Secret sharing scheme for disaster recovery with asymmetric key?
I want to backup many secrets using a secret sharing scheme, to make sure my family can access those secrets in case of my death. I need a way to keep adding secrets (without distributing new shares).
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Where to store pydrive secret?
Backstory: been toying with the idea of setting up some raspberry pi cctv cameras. originally I was going to store all footage for 31 days (complying with DPA) on a network drive but decided against ...
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Alternatives to hardcoding or encrypting key material in source code
What is best practice as of 2019 for storing secrets inside applications?
Sometimes in an app, you might need to access some web-resource or other asset that requires authentication or decryption.
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Securing key generation by 3rd parties
I'm working on an IoT product that uses the cloud once finished. Each of these devices has a serial number, from which a key is derived. This key is then stored on the device itself and in the cloud. ...
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Getting data from AWS Secrets Manager at deployment (ENV variables) vs. at run-time (e.g. aws-sdk)
Given a serverless deployment of some kind (i.e. something that relies on AWS Lambda for computing), and secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager, what difference from security standpoint is there ...
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How secure is this scheme?
Introduction of the cryptosystem
Let's say we have a system with a central server SRV that is considered secure (communication with this server is secured too with TLS).
Then let's say we have many ...
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Handling secrets and environmental variables in Docker-k8s-skaffold dev environment
Basically, trying to wrap my brain around how I should be handling secrets using Docker, k8s, and Skaffold in a dev environment. I'm pretty new to this tech, so don't fully understand all of it.
Just ...
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