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SPIFFE/SPIRE could work for the identity layer. The risk engine concept is cool. Would love to see that applied to machine identities that are working "on-behalf-of" humans.
Re:Why to not use JWT (2021) on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:29AM (#33021172)
Exactly this. They just need to validate the JWT signature against a JSON Web Key Set (JWKS). There's no need to store the data.
Love this minimalist approach!
Re:The Twelve-Factor App (2011) on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:25PM (#31200686)
Check out the Secretless Broker at https://secretless.io. It's a cool open source project that allows applications to not need to know secrets which adheres to 12-factor app guidelines.
Re:Show HN: WallSmash – An Infinite Brick Breaker Game on Sunday January 16, 2022 @06:52PM (#29961727)
Yes, well, now I'll be slacking off at work due to it... so you'll continue to see that trend. Thanks for this!
I developed go-keyconfig after realizing that almost every CLI that I use on a daily basis that requires authentication of some kind drops the secrets in a local filesystem config file in plain-text. As one could imagine, this is ripe for an accidental git commit or easy reading from an attacker.

Every OS comes with a secrets manager of some kind... MacOS has OSX Keychain, Linux has GNOME Keyring, KWallet, and secret-service, even Windows has Credential Manager.

This module is designed to help developers creating apps or CLIs needing to store configuration values in config files a secure means of doing so. It supports All the secret managers mentioned above.

I would love to hear everyone's feedback and thoughts!

CyberArk already does this... it's called Vendor Privileged Access.
Re:Tabletop Simulator on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:01PM (#24924095)
I found this game to only be fun to play in VR (I have the Oculus Quest 2). On PC, it's hard to use KBAM as hands as adamredwoods said.
Re:IBM's Acquisition of Red Hat Closes on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:06AM (#20391848)
R.I.P. Red Hat
Re:Jenkins Is Getting Old on Monday April 29, 2019 @06:23PM (#19783163)
This completely fails to mention the security issues with Jenkins, as well. https://www.cyberark.com/threat-research-blog/tripping-the-j...
Re:Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @10:21AM (#18494399)
Which sucks when it's 2am and you start blowing up a majority of shard holders phones to unseal it because it sealed itself causing a critical outage.
Re:Why We Need Dynamic Secrets on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:24AM (#17969696)
THIS! EVERYTHING THIS!
Re:Why We Need Dynamic Secrets on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:51AM (#17968735)
Sure, the master key is split into shards...

I'm talking about the account creating the database user. Let's take MSSQL, for example. The equivalent to a root account there is `sa`. So, Vault will have control of the `sa` account in order to create leased database users.

If I'm a malicious actor inside the environment, what's stopping me from compromising the `sa` account and mimicking dynamic secrets? I'd need to be comparing Vault logs with Database logs constantly to ensure it was legit.

It's just madness, if you ask me.

Re:Why We Need Dynamic Secrets on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:50AM (#17968034)
That was my first thought, too.

"But... there's a root account... creating another account... which is typically a privileged action. What's protecting that? Is that root account being rotated, too?"

Re:Why We Need Dynamic Secrets on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:48AM (#17968022)
My concern is how you can tell me whether a database user was created by Vault and not by a malicious actor with knowledge of Vault's Dynamic Secrets method mimicking it.

How the heck can I know if it was a legit created database user or not?

Re:Untangling Jenkins on Monday December 25, 2017 @08:05PM (#16006467)
You're not the first I've heard going this route... +1
Re:Strongbox: a secret manager for AWS on Monday November 27, 2017 @07:08PM (#15793042)
I prefer the RBAC and YAML policies Conjur provides... https://github.com/cyberark/conjur
Re:Windows XP at Defcon: Preparation on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:01PM (#14840974)
I'll be there and looking for it :D
How long does the cracking process take? I remember WEP only taking 10 minutes using aircrack-ng in BackTrace... I imagine this takes substantially longer.