What are the Practices for Secret Management in Software Artifacts?. (arXiv:2208.11280v1 [cs.SE])

Throughout 2021, GitGuardian's monitoring of public GitHub repositories
revealed a two-fold increase in the number of secrets (database credentials,
API keys, and other credentials) exposed compared to 2020, accumulating more
than six million secrets. A systematic derivation of practices for managing
secrets can help practitioners in secure development. The goal of our paper is
to aid practitioners in avoiding the exposure of secrets by identifying secret
management practices in software artifacts through a systematic derivation of
practices disseminated in Internet …

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