Top "Secret-key" questions

A secret key is a piece of data that is known by a limited number of users / programs and that participates in protecting information (or access to the information).

Securing OAuth clientId/clientSecret in AngularJS application

I know this is probably an age-old question, but...are there any best practices for securing client secrets for performing …

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when you have secret key in your project, how can pushing to GitHub be possible?

I am trying to push a brand new, empty Rail 3.0.4 project to GitHub, but just realize that the cookie session …

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Android: Store SecretKey in KeyStore

I use a SecretKey to encrypt sensitive data in my application. Currently I am storing my SecretKey in Base64 encoded …

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Why does my AES Cipher throw an InvalidKeyException on init of DECRYPT_MODE

Why would this init succeed: Cipher AESCipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding"); AESCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretKey, secRandom); …

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How to set secret key for Devise in Rails?

I added the Devise gem then followed the instructions and ran rails generate devise:install, the result was the following: /…

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Java - Converting string into DES key

I have been given a key as a string and an encrypted file using DES. That is all I know. …

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Store client secret securely

I know that a public client shouldn't use a client secret because, no matter how much you obfuscate it, it …

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Making a Git project open source when you have secret keys

I have a project on GitHub behind a private repository. I want to make the repo public. However, my project …

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