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# Secrets Management

## About

Software secrets management involves handling and protecting sensitive information, such as API keys, passwords, tokens, and encryption keys, that are used within a software system. These "secrets" are critical for the operation of many applications, providing access to databases, third-party services, cloud infrastructures, and other important resources. If these secrets are compromised, it could lead to data breaches, unauthorized access, or other security incidents.

## Tools / Solutions / Products

* [Azure Key Vault](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/key-vault/): safeguard cryptographic keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services.
* [AWS Secrets Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/): helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles.
* [AWS Key Management Service (KMS)](https://aws.amazon.com/kms/): create and control keys used to encrypt or digitally sign your data.
* [Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://cloud.google.com/secret-manager): a secure and convenient storage system for API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.
* [Google Cloud Key Management](https://cloud.google.com/security-key-management): manage encryption keys on Google Cloud.
* [HashiCorp Vault](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault): manage access to secrets and protect sensitive data.
* [StackExchange Blackbox](https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox): Safely store secrets in a VCS repo (i.e. Git, Mercurial, Subversion or Perforce).
* [Akeyless Vault Platform](https://www.akeyless.io/secrets-management/secrets-store/): enable developers with a secure vault for credentials, certificates and keys.
* [Doppler](https://www.doppler.com/): the uncomplicated way to sync, manage, orchestrate, and rotate secrets across any environment or app config with easy to use tools.
* Mozilla [SOPS](https://github.com/mozilla/sops) (Secrets OPerationS): simple and flexible tool for managing secrets.
* [Teller](https://github.com/tellerops/teller) ([web](https://tlr.dev/)): a productivity secret manager for developers supporting cloud-native apps and multiple cloud providers. Mix and match all vaults and other key stores and safely use secrets as you code, test, and build applications.
* [CyberArk Conjur](https://github.com/cyberark/conjur) ([web](https://www.conjur.org/)): automatically secures secrets used by privileged users and machine identities.
* [GoPass](https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass) ([web](https://www.gopass.pw/)): the slightly more awesome standard UNIX password manager for teams.
* [Spectral Keyscope](https://github.com/SpectralOps/keyscope): a key and secret workflow (validation, invalidation, etc.) tool built in Rust.
* [Pinterest Knox](https://github.com/pinterest/knox): a service for storing and rotation of secrets, keys, and passwords used by other services.
* [Git-tresor](https://github.com/thebitrebels/git-tresor): Encrypt and decrypt files to store them inside a git repository. git-tresor uses AES-256 encryption. Every file or directory has it's own password. This enables you to commit encrypted files either in a separate git repository or inside the same repository where your secret files are needed (f.e. Android-Keystores or Signing-Certificates for Apple).
* [Ansible Vault](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-vault.html): encryption/decryption utility for Ansible data files.
* [Chef Vault](https://github.com/chef/chef-vault): securely manage passwords, certs, and other secrets in Chef.
* [CredStash](https://github.com/fugue/credstash) (⚠️): a very simple, easy to use credential management and distribution system that uses AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for key wrapping and master-key storage, and DynamoDB for credential storage and sharing.


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