What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git repo?

Re:What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git ... by time0ut on Saturday November 07, 2020 @09:14AM (#25015170)

I believe AWS secrets are 240 bits. That is a pretty massive space. I don't know how many active secrets are out there, but I think someone would need to get very lucky to collide before the attack was noticed and stopped.

Other partner's secrets may be more susceptible.

Edit: I did not consider the paired access key which is another 70 or so bits. I think you'd need to collide on both to make someone have a bad day.

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Re:What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git ... by remram on Saturday November 07, 2020 @11:27AM (#25015984)

You need to guess both to use them, but you only need to guess the secret to get it revoked. GitHub does not check that the corresponding access key is somewhere in the repo too before taking action. You are right about this being impractical though.

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Re:What will happen when you commit secrets to a public Git ... by time0ut on Saturday November 07, 2020 @11:58AM (#25016257)

Ah ok. I wasn't sure how that part worked.

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