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Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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You open-sourced your code - isn't this scrutiny exactly what you would want to achieve? Alternatively, I would expect these reports to be reported via your issues tracker.

Yup! We appreciate feedback we can get across all aspects including security but employ a security policy of reporting any security concerns via email - this is pretty standard practice we've seen.

Standard practice is to do a full security audit before you onboard customers.

Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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Hi. I'm also working on an E2E secrets manager. https://github.com/purton-tech/cloak A few tips. 1. It looks like I'm able to do account enumeration on your login page. For a secure app you want to make sure this is not possible. 2. Your CSP https://csp-evaluator.withgoogle.com/ has unsafe-eval. I would lock that down. 3. Your app seems to be JS based, which is OK but it means you have a whole bunch of supply chain a…

Thank you for pointing this out! Happy to take a look and discuss what you're building! I agree with some of these tips, but I think it's best to report them privately to team@infisical.com. We can then see with our team if these points are correct. Otherwise, this goes against responsible practices of security notifications and sounds more like an ad for your project.

Wow, this comment is more than enough to make sure I never use your product.

Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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Yup! We appreciate feedback we can get across all aspects including security but employ a security policy of reporting any security concerns via email - this is pretty standard practice we've seen.

> employ a security policy of reporting any security concerns via email You don't have a security.txt, https://infisical.com/docs/security/overview doesn't mention it and it's not on your FAQ, so I don't blame ianpurton for not finding it. You have a 'Report a vulnerability' issue template on GitHub ( https://github.com/Infisical/infisical/security/advisories/n... ) but then your readme points to a security policy wh…

There are 3 different locations in the GitHub repo regarding the security policy: a SECURITY.md file containing instructions to report security vulnerabilities to team@infisical.com — this is employed in other open core repos like Strapi, PostHog, Chatwoot; a security policy on the sidebar that links to the SECURITY.md; and a security section in our README that also links to the SECURITY.md.

There's also an issue template for reporting vulnerabilities as well as you mentioned.

That said, we'll add info to the security page in our docs to contact us regarding vulnerabilities.

Thanks!

Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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Does anyone have suggestions for a truly free-as-in-freedom and open source secrets manager? I'm so tired of seeing these quasi-open source products that dual-license their source code and lock essential features like SSO behind an enterprise paywall. Every one of these VC-funded startups always eventually goes down the drain as their backers seek to recoup these investment dollars.

Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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Yup! We appreciate feedback we can get across all aspects including security but employ a security policy of reporting any security concerns via email - this is pretty standard practice we've seen.

Standard practice is to do a full security audit before you onboard customers.

We're preparing to do a SOC2 with Vanta first followed by a security audit with some firm like Trail of Bits next.

We're fortifying the codebase every day and would expect this process to be complete in the next 2 quarters.

Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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TIL that systemd has a credentials component: https://systemd.io/CREDENTIALS/

Thank you, 'cause I don't wanna do the wrap command thing they do. Besides that, this is a great idea.

This is actually not the only way to use Infisical (though it's probably the easiest one). You can also use our Open API and we are adding SDKs for the most popular languages in the next few weeks: https://infisical.com/docs/api-reference/overview/introducti....

Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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It is actually mentioned on the pricing page! (in one of the FAQ questions)

I wouldn’t exactly consider a mention in passing on a “What is Infisical” to be exactly headlining the fact that it’s open source.

There is actually a question about self-hosted Infisical too. But I agree with you - we will do a better job for mentioning open source - we think this is VERY important, so this is definitely not our intention to hide it

Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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We provide all the main functionality completely for free under the MIT license. What this means is that all the integrations (Docker, AWS, Vercel, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc) are available completely to everyone. Next to that, all the features related to secret sharing, and security are also available under MIT. ee is only reserved for some features that are (mostly) needed by enterprises (e.g., audit logs, sso, adv…

Audit logging and SSO is pretty basic functionality that requires very little (many people would argue no ) additional effort or cost to maintain on the development side.

Surprisingly, audit logging has been deceivingly complex for us. There are many types of events (part of logs) triggered throughout the platform carrying different payloads/formats (e.g. events related to secrets, users, etc.). The variation in such events is increasing with the complexity of the product not to mention costs required to handle accumulating events. Last month, we served 14.2M+ secrets alone through the platform not counting other events — I hope this sheds more light on the audit logging side of things?

Re SSO: Totally get this one and I'm aware of the SSO tax — we're still figuring this one out but know currently that it's an absolute must for enterprises.

Re: Launch HN: Infisical (YC W23) – Open-source secrets manager for developers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We provide all the main functionality completely for free under the MIT license. What this means is that all the integrations (Docker, AWS, Vercel, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc) are available completely to everyone. Next to that, all the features related to secret sharing, and security are also available under MIT. ee is only reserved for some features that are (mostly) needed by enterprises (e.g., audit logs, sso, adv…

https://sso.tax/

Really strange thing to reply to this with. Did you find it just now and searched for "sso" on HN just to get a chance to randomly post it?
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