Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Cleanup/Do not keep encryption keys in bridge memory #330

Open
artek-koltun opened this issue Apr 13, 2023 · 2 comments
Open

Cleanup/Do not keep encryption keys in bridge memory #330

artek-koltun opened this issue Apr 13, 2023 · 2 comments

Comments

@artek-koltun
Copy link
Contributor

Storing encryption keys in memory increases the risk of vulnerabilities being exploited to obtain the keys. Therefore, it is better to adopt an approach where keys are not kept in memory and all temporary variables related to the keys are promptly cleaned up after their usage.
@glimchb
Copy link
Member

glimchb commented Jun 2, 2023

see https://github.com/opiproject/opi-intel-bridge/blob/e01c025c6b0af31140aee8d0c53e580cc937e0f2/pkg/middleend/middleend.go#L55

@glimchb
Copy link
Member

glimchb commented Jun 2, 2023

also see bc19cac
need to avoid storing them in the DB

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Assignees
No one assigned
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Milestone
No milestone
Development

No branches or pull requests
2 participants
@glimchb @artek-koltun