Related:
- 1. https://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/configuration/framework.html#configuration-framework-secret
- 2. https://laravel.com/docs/13.x/encryption#gracefully-rotating-encryption-keysIf they can brute force the password or key, the rotation will, at best, force them to do it multiple times. You'll see more improvement from just adding another couple of characters to the length.
Slightly annoying to have to wrap some clis in scripts that generate the short-lived token, but it feels really magical to have services securely calling each other without any explicit keys or password to even store in our vault.
Lots of cool benefits --- for instance, we ran the compromised Trivy github action a few weeks ago, but our Github Actions had 0 keys for it to leak! Also really great that I don't have to worry about rotating shared credentials on short notice if an engineer on my team decides to leave the company.
My private SSH key is rooted in hardware and can't even be extracted. This is awesome, I don't have to worry about it getting compromised.
The same should apply to all other keys, including the dreaded "bearer tokens".
pfg_•1h ago
serious_angel•1h ago
Perhaps some movement is needed? I do recall some relatively similar cases saved, if interested: